Sandy, UT — Pavement management at the City of El Paso, Texas, is easier and more efficient today than ever before announced Azteca Systems, Inc., the leading provider of GIS-centric management solutions. The City successfully implemented a GIS-centric pavement management solution, built around ESRI’s ArcGIS, Cityworks, and MicroPAVER. The solution provides the City with a comprehensive, intuitive solution for multi-year pavement management.

With a population of 700,000, El Paso has more than 3,300 miles of paved streets and $2.5 billion invested in pavement alone. To preserve such an investment, the City sought the most for their dollar in managing these assets. Calling this project the Traffic Management Information System (TMIS), ESRI led the project with assistance from Transmap and Azteca Systems. Transmap collected the field data including pavement distresses which were loaded into MicroPAVER, a pavement management software, to calculate Pavement Condition Index (PCI) of roads and recommend maintenance activities. Cityworks is used to manage, schedule, and track the resulting work. Information is passed between Cityworks and MicroPAVER through an interface which imports the asset information from Cityworks and the geodatabase into the MicroPAVER database and updates the geodatabase Condition field with the most current PCIs so that they can be displayed on the map.

“Good pavement management begins with a plan,” said Harold Kutz, P.E. for the City of El Paso. “That plan illustrates different strategies to better allocate dollars routinely spent maintaining asphalt. Our use of Cityworks, MicroPAVER, and ArcGIS has been very beneficial and has proven a solid solution for our pavement management needs.”

“The pavement management solution provided to the City has proven extremely beneficial,” states Steven Thomas, Senior Project Manager, Azteca Systems. “The strengths of ESRI, Azteca Systems, and Transmap were all utilized in the solution to aid the City in obtaining pavement rehabilitation funding. The GIS solution provided by ESRI was critical in providing the assets for both work order and pavement management, and in displaying the pavement conditions on maps. Cityworks provided the tools to demonstrate the current efforts being made to manage the workload and the costs of that effort.”

Pavement analysis and reporting is an ongoing process from which the City benefits with timely, accurate information – predicting where, when, and which streets can be repaired or may be more cost-effective to replace, both now and in the future.

About El Paso, Texas
With a population of 700,000, El Paso is the 22nd largest city in the United States and the 3rd fastest growing metropolitan area in the nation. Located in the westernmost corner of Texas, the city’s economic base is comprised of the military (Fort Bliss) and other government agencies, defense-related businesses, education, retail and wholesale trades, manufacturing, and agriculture. El Paso and the City of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, are separated by the Rio Grande and have been uniquely linked culturally and economically since their founding. Over the past 400 years, the contributions of Native Americans, Spanish conquistadors, Central and South Americans, Europeans, and Asians have enriched El Paso’s artistic and cultural life.

About Transmap
For the past 15 years, Transmap has helped public works/transportation professionals turn data into knowledge, justify needs, and document funding levels for public infrastructure. With their proven system of data collection, data integration, and reporting solutions, customers have been able to drive towards a Return On Investment (ROI) by using this knowledge. Transmap knows what reports are typically used and what data is most useful in creating those reports. Known for excellent customer service and hard work, their professional staff of engineers, GIS people, and IT managers are ready for any challenge in the public asset management arena. They strive for excellent customer service and will work hard for your agency.