By Jill Johnson
KDLT News
There are more than 800 miles of roadway in Sioux Falls. With only so much room in the budget, it’s crucial for city officials to choose the right streets to improve at the right time. On Tuesday, they introduced a new way to help them.
A company out of Arizona, Infrastructure Management Services, uses technology both on the inside and attached to a van to collect data on road conditions.
Matt Holmes with IMS said, “On the front bumper, it’s got eleven different lasers that are reading transverse cracks, how wide, how deep they are. It also measures the roughness, the rut depth and the evenness of the road.”
One person monitors a camera connected to GPS. If the lasers don’t pick up problems, two others will manually import them.
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