Cityworks March 2009 Delivering Innovative GIS-Centric Maintenance Management Tools for Your Organization
City of El Paso Implements a Multi-Year Pavement Management Solution By Craig Schorling, GISP, Transmap Corporation With a population of 700,000, El Paso, Texas, is the 22nd largest city in the United States and the 3rd fastest-growing metropolitan area. The City maintains 3300 miles of paved streets and has over $2.5 billion invested in pavement alone, with $60 million in backlogged pavement updates. Such an investment necessitates careful management and the City wanted to get the best bang for their dollar when it came to pavement funding. Harold Kutz, P.E. for the City of El Paso, summed it up like this, “Good pavement management begins with a plan. That plan holds the different strategies to better allocate the dollars that are routinely spent maintaining asphalt. When the PCI value reaches a low number, often it is too late to stop the deterioration. El Paso has proven internally that it’s better to spend dollars to maintain ‘good’ asphalt than to waste treatment in areas that can only be PCI or Pavement Condition helped by reconstruction.” Index is a number from 1-100 to indicate the overall quality of a road’s surface. It is based on the type, quantity, and severity of distresses, like alligator cracking or potholes. The higher the number the better the road condition.
Despite such sound reasoning, the El Paso Public Works Department faced the daunting task of defending their pavement funding requests. El Paso’s Pavement/Quality Control Manager, Continued on page 24
Cityworks User Spotlight— Grand Rapids, Minnesota By Michael LeClaire, GIS/CAD Technician, Grand Rapids, Minnesota Situation At the City of Grand Rapids Public Works Department, we used to keep track of all our work orders on handwritten notes. If any budget analysis or estimate of cost on a specific work task was needed, the task would be very time-consuming, if at all possible as the only way to retrieve data for analysis was to go back through handwritten time sheets and daily work logs from Public Works staff to identify who had worked on the task being analyzed. However, in most cases, the analysis was simply estimated because of how time-consuming it was to complete. Also, there had never been a link from any of our work orders to our GIS, making it nearly impossible to identify which structures we had worked on and how often the work was completed, except from the memory of staff members.
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE Features
El Paso, TX, Implements a Multi-Year Pavement Management Solution
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Grand Rapids, Minnesota — Cityworks Spotlight
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President’s Corner — Weighing Your Cityworks Server Options
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Software Update — Cityworks Permitting: Integration Update
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Cityworks Server MMS Released
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Project Management
Naperville, IL, Integrates Cityworks and GovQA through Cityworks Service Request API
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Edmond, OK, and Cityworks Small Government ELA
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Client Services — The 411 from the Cityworks Campus
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MyCityworks.com — Your Destination to Self-Help Support Technology Support Update: Cityworks/ESRI Versions Partner News — Fulton County Public Works, GA, Keeps Doing What It Does Best with Cityworks (Velocitie)
El Paso, Texas, Skyline
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City of Oakland, CA, Begins Rollout of Cityworks Server (Vestra)
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Cityworks Server MMS Rollout/User Group Seminar Series
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Regional News
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Get to Know — Cityworks Software Developers
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Special Achievements — ESRI SAG Awards
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