Pavement Management

Project Description

(CIP TSM-94-PW-78 pg. 151-52) The Pavement Condition Management Program started in 1993. The review is conducted by Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc. (VHB), surveying 25% of Portsmouth’s total 104.2-mile, City-maintained road network each year. In 2018, VHB performed a detailed inspection of the condition of the pavement on all the City maintained roads and created a database of information which can be viewed, edited and analyzed using VHB’s RoadManager™ software. The data is linked to the City’s Geographic Information System (GIS), so that thematic maps can be created to display any of the information in the database.

An annual report updating the city’s pavement management system is completed as part of this program. City road conditions are evaluated, the road network conditions and budget requirements are analyzed, and road-paving programs are developed. The report provides recommended funding to maintain street conditions at current levels. These are capital costs. They are implemented over a two-year period with an expected life of 20 years. The Public Works operational budget includes maintenance costs with an expected life of 10 years

Completed in 2023:

• Top Banfield Road
• Top Little Harbor Road
• Dearborn Street final paving
• Upper Court Street from Middle to Pleasant Streets
• Pannaway Manor
• Maplehaven Speed Tables
• Mirona Road
• Binder on Boyd Road
• Elwyn Park phase 2 (Coolidge, Taft, Grant, Taft, Garfield from Hoover to McKinley and Nixon Park)
• Top Bridge Street Parking Lot
• Worth Parking Lot overlay
• Middle Street & Middle Road intersection
• Market Street from Bow Street to Market Square
• Pease Tradeport: Corporate Drive

Project Manager:

Start:  April 1, 2023

Completion: Fall 2023

Estimated cost: $4,000,000 in Street Paving, Maintenance and Rehabilitation

Funding source: Bonding. CIP FY24-29 pg 35.