Wichita Public Works

Definition:

The Wichita Public Works Department provides for the design, construction, maintenance and cleaning of the City’s streets, roads, sidewalks and traffic control devices; maintenance and custodial services for City buildings; and natural resource conservation.

Inventory Elements:

• SCADA
• Wichita Construction and Maintenance System
• Wichita Construction and Maintenance Vehicles
• Wichita Flood Monitoring System
• Wichita TOC Roadside Equipment
• Wichita Traffic Operations Center

Roles and Responsibilities:

Maintenance and Construction for Wichita Area
• Wichita Public Works is responsible for distributing the road weather conditions collected from environmental sensor stations and also from their maintenance and construction vehicles (future concept) to other agencies in the City of Wichita.
• Wichita Public Works is responsible for tracking their maintenance and construction vehicles to aid with managing snow plow operations and resource deployments.
• Wichita Public Works is responsible for using the environmental sensors to access roadway conditions and make determinations as to what corrective actions are warranted.
• Wichita Public Works is responsible for coordinating work zone projects with adjacent jurisdictions. This coordination will help to ensure that motorist are not unnecessarily driving through multiple work zone and are not causing significant delays to motorist.
• Wichita Public Works is responsible to posting work zone information on portable DMS and HAR to information motorist of work zone activity. These posting will allow motorist to drive with caution as they travel through work zones in Sedgwick county.
• Wichita Public Works is responsible for managing the routine maintenance activities (e.g., grass cutting, debris removing, field asset repairs) in the City of Wichita.
• Wichita Public Works is responsible for managing snow plow operations for their coverage areas and ensuring proper treatment measures are implemented to allow motorist to safely navigate on the roadway system.

Surface Street Management for Wichita Area
• Wichita Public Works is responsible for managing the traffic signal timings for Wichita to minimize congestion levels on the surface streets.
• In the future, Wichita will control Sedgwick County signals through an arterial traffic management system.