YOUR ROAD MAINTENANCE SYSTEM
Street maintenance management is just one of the many areas in which superintendents for small and medium sized governments can use our NovoGov Asset Management Software.
Our platform lets you organize and view your municipality’s assets, report the maintenance costs, and plan for which areas need repair or other attention. The system is user friendly and grows along with your projects. It’s that simple.
This overview demo video shows our road maintenance system software. It includes tracking a street’s pavement conditions, the work orders associated with re-paving it, and the costs the project incurs with NovoGov on the ShareNet Platform.
NovoGov Road Maintenance System Features
(Click a box to see a screenshot)
Intuitive web and mobile lists and forms make it easy to view and update records
See road segments, nearby assets, and work orders on a map – with ESRI integration
Integrate PASER Condition Assessment data from a GIS Layer
View and update Sign and Traffic signals on a map.
Forecast Street/Road related Capital Improvement Projects
Interactive Dashboard/Reporting shows totals for road maintenance costs in seconds
Add & update work orders and view nearby assets on a Smart Phone or Tablet.
Asset & Work Order Management for all Public Works/Utilities Departments
WHAT OUR CLIENTS SAY
Thomas Wilbur, Highway Superintendent
“With NovoGov, it’s easy to collect and view the data in a way that actually makes sense. What used to take 45 minutes now takes less than 2—and it’s accurate, searchable, and right at our fingertips. The only thing limiting us now is time and imagination.”
Thomas Wilbur, Highway Superintendent, Keith County, Nebraska
Leverage your PCI Data for Planning & CIP Budgeting
As a street superintendent, do you find yourself wondering how you can get the most out of the PASER (Pavement Surface Evaluation and Rating System) Condition Assessment you just completed? How about how you can best prioritize your road maintenance system in the next five years, or how you can justify to your council the capital budget required to keep your roads in good condition?
The answer we propose at Novo Solutions is our NovoGov Asset & Work Order Software, a road asset management system software that can optimize the way you manage your municipality’s road maintenance.
Our road maintenance system enables you to:
- See street and stormwater-related work orders on a map of your streets with colors based on PCI (pavement condition index) rating.
- Report on the cost of patch/repair-related maintenance by street so you can determine if you should resurface the street segment sooner than later.
- Integrate PCI information from ESRI and provide reporting and dashboards on this data.
- Define road segments (if you do not already have this) to include identifying all streets and street segments, as well as the assets related to those segments. These include lighting, stormwater drainage system assets (such as catch basins, drainage ditches, and culverts), and signage.
Key Benefits of a Pavement Management System
You’ve now read some fine details about how the Novo Solutions software can help your road maintenance efforts in your municipality.
But if you’re still looking for hard-and-fast answers to how our pavement management system can benefit you, we would say our solution allows you to do two main things. It helps you to:
- Make more informed decisions about road maintenance
- Use data to justify budget requests
Any street maintenance software that’s built for a municipality should allow users to define:
- Types of road assets
- Road classes such as primary, secondary, and misc.
- Surface types such as concrete, hot-mix asphalt, and tar and chip
- Priority index on a scale of 1 to 10 (or 1 to 100) to help you prioritize which road segments are most important
- PCI using the pavement video taken as part of the PASER
- Inspection date so pavement conditions can be updated and tracked over time
Our road asset management system software allows all pavement-related work to be captured on work orders from small patch and repair jobs to complete structural improvements.
Using the road maintenance app, work orders have the ability to capture the total cost of the work (i.e. labor hours, equipment hours, and materials), whether the work is done in-house or outsourced. Work order pavement categories such as preventative, repair, rehab, or structural improvement can be defined.
Treatment types can include:
- Preventative maintenance
- Pavement rejuvenators
- Crack sealing
- Sealcoating applied to pavements in good or excellent condition
- Rehabilitation – typically for roads in fair condition
- Grind and overlay
- Structural improvement – typically for roads in fair to poor condition
- Pavement reclamation
- Partial depth reconstruction
- Full-depth reconstruction
Road Maintenance Software FAQ
What is a road maintenance system?
A road maintenance system is software a public works or street department uses to inventory road segments and related assets, track the work orders and costs to maintain them, and plan repaving with condition data. NovoGov does this on one configurable platform built for small and mid-sized governments.
What is the difference between PASER and PCI?
PASER (Pavement Surface Evaluation and Rating System) is a visual method for rating pavement condition, and PCI (Pavement Condition Index) is a 0 to 100 score for a road segment. NovoGov integrates PASER and PCI condition data from your GIS layer and shows it on the map, color-coded by rating.
How does it help with CIP budgeting and justifying a paving budget to the council?
You can forecast street and road capital improvement projects from your condition and cost data, and use the dashboards and reports to show the council what your roads need and why. Reporting cost by street helps you decide whether to patch or resurface a segment.
How do you track the total cost of road maintenance work orders?
Work orders capture the total cost of the work, including labor hours, equipment hours, and materials, whether the work is done in-house or outsourced. You can then report those costs by street, which helps with tracking road maintenance costs by segment.
Does it integrate with Esri and ArcGIS GIS?
Yes. NovoGov integrates with Esri GIS so you can see road segments, nearby assets, and work orders on a map, color-coded by PCI rating.
What assets besides pavement can you track?
Beyond pavement, you can define and track the assets tied to your road segments, including signs and traffic signals, street lighting, and stormwater assets like catch basins, drainage ditches, and culverts.
Is it built for small municipalities and counties?
Yes. NovoGov is built for small and mid-sized cities and counties, so a small street department can run it without a large IT team.
Keith County, NE by the Numbers
Keith County, Nebraska runs an 18-person highway department that manages more than 800 miles of roads. After moving to NovoGov, Highway Superintendent Thomas Wilbur reports:
- 30x faster access to road maintenance records, from up to 45 minutes digging through binders to under 2 minutes.
- 100% improvement in inspection compliance and documentation.
- Real-time updates from all 18 employees on county-issued tablets, with clearer reporting to the Board of Commissioners and the public.