Understanding the Past and Preparing for the Future: A look at teh City of Hamilton's Road Condition/Performance

As part of their ongoing asset management initiative, the City of Hamilton has been reviewing and updating their roads “numbers” for the State of the Infrastructure Report. This paper includes a 10-year review of the City’s road performance, as well as, a 10-year projection of road performance based on different funding levels. The City of Hamilton was amalgamated in 2001. At that time, a network-level data collection survey was conducted on City roads to evaluate the condition of the road network. A network-level data collection survey was repeated again in 2006 and in 2011. These data collection surveys provided the City with 3 data points over a ten-year period. The historical data was used to assess the pavement condition results and trends, as well as the spending results/trends since the City’s amalgamation. This provided the City with a look back at the road investment and the resulting road condition. Furthermore, as a result of the 3 data collection efforts, the assumptions regarding the pavement deterioration models and decision trees were evaluated/calibrated to be used for future pavement performance. Finally, the historical data and the new updated models were used to predict pavement performance based on various spending scenarios, including the projected funding over the next 10 years, the cost to maintain a status quo on the various classes of roads, and the spending required to reach a “B” grade level of service as recommended by City Council after the presentation of the 2009 SOTI Report.

• Record URL:
  http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/annualconference/tac2014/s-19/whiteley.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)

  401-1111 Prince of Wales Drive
  Ottawa, Ontario  Canada 
• Authors:
  • Whiteley, L
  • DALZIEL, A
  • ANDOGA, R
  • MURRAY, J
• Conference:
  • Transportation 2014: Past, Present, Future - 2014 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // Transport 2014 : Du passé vers l'avenir - 2014 Congrès et Exposition de 'Association des transports du Canada
• Publication Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 1 PDF file, 313 KB, 15p.
• Monograph Title: Transportation 2014: Past, Present, Future - 2014 Conference and Exhibition of the Transportation Association of Canada // Transport 2014 : Du passé vers l'avenir - 2014 Congrès et Exposition de 'Association des transports du Canada

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Condition surveys; Conferences; Durability; Forecasting; Maintenance; Networks; Pavements; Planning; Types of roads by network; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Traffic networks
• Geographic Terms: Canada
• ITRD Terms: 8018: Canada; 3857: Condition survey; 8525: Conference; 5910: Durability; 132: Forecast; 3847: Maintenance; 1054: Network (traffic); 2955: Pavement; 143: Planning; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Pavements; Planning and Forecasting; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01553395
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Association of Canada (TAC)
• Files: ITRD, TAC
• Created Date: Feb 13 2015 4:29PM