Improving Pavement Condition at an Accelerated Pace: The City of Phoenix Accelerated Pavement Maintenance Program: Fid-Bau Portal

Improving Pavement Condition at an Accelerated Pace: The City of Phoenix Accelerated Pavement Maintenance Program

Stevens, Ryan

In 2018, the Phoenix City Council took action to increase resources available to triple the amount of major street rehabilitation across the City. This two hundred-million-dollar advance sought to quickly and dramatically improve the pavement condition of the City’s major streets through a five-year resurfacing program. With more than 4,850 miles of publicly maintained streets in the City, the Accelerated Pavement Maintenance Program (APMP) project has significant positive impact on Phoenix residents, businesses, and visitors as people travel throughout the City. The Street Transportation Department’s APMP team worked hard to deliver outstanding results for the community in a short timeframe through hard work, rigorous analysis, collaboration, and innovative thinking. To accelerate the existing five-year plan into a three year timeframe and add additional projects, the team increased communication and coordination with stakeholders, both internal and external, to avoid pavement cuts, engaged in a major public outreach and involvement campaign using innovative approaches, partnered with paving contractors and industry, and used an analysis of pavement condition to identify and prioritize projects using the principles of asset management. The APMP progressed ahead of schedule, delivering approximately eighty percent of the programmed miles within the first three years. In the last three years, the APMP has completed the rehabilitation of nearly eleven percent of the entire street network, more than ever before. After completing several years of increased maintenance activity, the City is taking steps to protect this investment by improving the ongoing maintenance and preservation of City streets.