Lawrenceville Enhances Capital Improvement Plan with DRIVE™ Pavement Management Solution
Challenge
Limited budgets and expensive pavement repair needs prevented the City of Lawrenceville from affording capital improvements to revitalize its aging roadway network.
Solution
Using DRIVE in partnership with our pavement management specialists, the City of Lawrenceville gained a holistic understanding of its pavement network and justified capital improvement spending with a data-driven pavement maintenance and repair program.
Impact
DRIVE continues to help the City proactively manage pavement revitalization, anticipate pavement maintenance needs to reduce overall life cycle costs, optimize budgets with more accurate cost predictions, and stretch resources further with cost-effective network improvements.
The Challenge
Without a comprehensive understanding of its pavement assets, the City of Lawrenceville struggled to manage expensive roadway maintenance with a limited budget.
As the second oldest city in Metro Atlanta, Lawrenceville needed to revitalize its aging, 100-mile roadway network and address growing pavement repair needs. The City had no ongoing pavement maintenance plan, so emergent reconstruction and rehabilitation projects quickly depleted the resources allotted for planned improvements.
With changing roadway conditions and pavement assets deteriorating at different rates, funding new capital improvements was almost impossible. To save time and maximize its budget, the City of Lawrenceville needed a consultant to help inventory the pavement network, assess pavement conditions, and build a roadmap toward preventive, cost-effective improvements.
Our Solution
Our DRIVE software enabled the City of Lawrenceville to visualize condition assessment data for pavement assets in its roadway network and gain actionable insights about the City’s maintenance and repair needs.
After hearing about other municipalities’ successes with Kimley-Horn, the City of Lawrenceville selected our team of pavement engineers to conduct a condition assessment of its roadway network as an extension of an existing on-call contract. The scope of work included city-wide pavement management services and a license to Kimley-Horn’s Database for Roadway Inventory Visualization and Evaluation (DRIVE) software, a holistic pavement management solution.
Using DRIVE in partnership with Kimley-Horn pavement management specialists, the City of Lawrenceville completed a full pavement inventory of its roadway assets. The pavement management tool enabled the city to view the current conditions of all pavement assets within its network and develop a cost-effective maintenance and repair program.
With a holistic understanding of its roadway network, the City was empowered to justify capital improvement spending with:
- Recommendations for roadway repairs and treatments to extend the service life of pavement assets
- Prioritization of maintenance needs based on cost-benefit values
- Budget projections for varying scenarios and consequences of under-funding
- Estimates of maintenance and repair costs over the next three years to show the effect of varying funding levels on roadway network conditions
The Impact
The City of Lawrenceville gained the data and understanding to balance spending, improve overall pavement conditions, and get back in the driver’s seat of proactive pavement and asset oversight.
“The City of Lawrenceville was looking for a pavement management tool that could help us optimize our limited budget. Kimley-Horn was able to deliver a complete management tool starting from the condition assessment and ending with the DRIVE software that enabled us to create a plan that would improve the condition of our streets while maintaining our current budget targets. The DRIVE tool is a living pavement management plan. If our priorities or budget shift from year to year, we have the ability to adjust on the fly to still meet our goals. Kimley-Horn delivered exactly what we envisioned and needed to support our pavement plan.”
The City of Lawrenceville has developed a roadmap for short- and long-term pavement maintenance and repair needs to address issues before they escalate to expensive rehabilitation projects. DRIVE’s budget scenario planning module has been critical to communicate funding needs to stakeholders, highlighting the effects of various funding levels to roadway network conditions over time.
Through this proactive pavement management approach, the City can reduce the total life cycle costs of its pavement assets and gain time to plan for future improvements, applying the most cost-effective solution to the right pavement at the right time.
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