Pavement Management Systems

Contra Costa County is home to some of the best pavement in the Bay Area — and also some of the worst. Data released today by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) show the county’s more...

The streets of San Francisco may be smoother than those in the Bay Area’s two other major cities, but still rate no better than “fair.”

Pavement conditions on the typical road in Solano County are much like those in the rest of the Bay Area: seriously worn and in need of rehabilitation within the next few years. Data released today by...

Pavement conditions around the region improved ever so slightly in 2015, but the typical Bay Area street remains seriously worn and likely to need rehabilitation soon. Data released today by the...

OAKLAND, CA — The Metropolitan Transportation Commission today introduced new software, dubbed MobileRater™, for hand-held computers to help city and county public works departments and others improve...

OAKLAND, CA — The quality of the pavement on the Bay Area’s nearly 43,000 lane-miles of local streets and roads is stuck in “fair” condition, with the typical stretch of asphalt showing serious wear...

OAKLAND, CA — The good news is the quality of the pavement on the typical Bay Area street did not deteriorate in 2014. The bad news is that neither did it improve. Data released today by the...

The Pavement Conditions Index (PCI) provides a snapshot of the pavement health of a road. It is measured on a scale of 0 to 100 (where 100 means a newly paved road), and many factors affect a city’s...