Suburban Maintenance and Construction Agencies

Definition:

This stakeholder group represents all of the suburban community maintenance and construction agencies external to the City of Wichita and in the Wichita Area.

Inventory Elements:

• Suburban Maintenance and Construction System

Roles and Responsibilities:

Maintenance and Construction for Wichita Area
• Suburban Maintenance and Construction Agencies are responsible for using the environmental sensors to access roadway conditions and make determinations as to what corrective actions are warranted.
• Suburban Maintenance and Construction Agencies are 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.
• Suburban Maintenance and Construction Agencies are 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 the suburban areas.
• Suburban Maintenance and Construction Agencies are responsible for managing the routine maintenance activities (e.g., grass cutting, debris removing, field asset repairs) in the suburban areas.
• Suburban Maintenance and Construction Agencies are 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 suburban regional areas.
• Suburban Maintenance and Construction Agencies are responsible for tracking their maintenance and construction vehicles to aid with managing snow plow operations and resource deployments.
• Suburban Maintenance and Construction Agencies are 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.