About the Project

For years, the Kane County Department of Transportation used Illinois’ Condition Rating System (CRS) and a proprietary pavement management system (PMS) to manage their roadway network. However, after experiencing difficulties updating the system, the County switched to a newer asset management tool, expanding on their existing relationship with Cartegraph (OMS). The County hired APTech to manage the effort and successfully implement OMS and provide training for the County.

Our work included:

• Collecting condition data for the County’s 350 miles of roads using APTech’s EDGE van

• Summarizing the collected data as PCI values

• Configuring OMS with treatment strategies and performance models that were representative of County practice

• Providing training to the County on the use of Scenario Builder to perform budget analyses and create work needs projections

• Using historical condition data to assess treatment effectiveness and help the County decide which treatments were the most beneficial in terms of cost

• Extracting asset information from right-of-way (ROW) imagery to update the County GIS with more complete data

The County now has the capability to perform budget scenario analyses and can produce clear presentation graphics for interaction with decision makers—a key objective of the project. Due to the success of this project, in 2022 APTech was re-selected to provide the same services in 2023.