Road condition survey software for councils
Automated road condition surveys from vehicles you already run
BlackRoad turns your council's fleet into a road condition monitoring system. Every trip surveys the roads it drives: defects are detected, graded and GPS-tagged in the vehicle, then sent to your asset system.
- Every trip
- Survey frequency
- In-vehicle
- Where detection runs
- Yours
- Data ownership
- Type
- Edge deterioration
- Severity
- Medium
- GPS
- -16.81705, 145.72031
What you get
A road condition assessment that updates every trip
A register of graded, located defects, not hours of footage for someone to review.
Every defect GPS-tagged
Type, severity, location and a photo. Repeat sightings merge into one record.
Condition tracked over time
Each pass updates the record, so you see a defect appear, worsen and get fixed.
Automated PDF reports
Condition reports for any area and period, with nobody writing them up.
Into your asset system
Confirmed defects arrive ready to become work orders. Export any time in open formats.
Compared with manual surveys
Road condition data that stays current
A manual road condition survey is a snapshot. A fitted fleet surveys every road it drives, every time it drives it.
- Who does the looking
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Done by hand today
An inspector drives out and assesses roads by eye, as often as the roster allows.
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Automated with BlackRoad
Fleet vehicles detect and grade defects as they drive. Nothing for the driver to do.
- How much of the network is seen
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Done by hand today
Whatever the schedule reaches. The rest is only as current as its last visit.
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Automated with BlackRoad
Every road your fleet drives, every time it drives it.
- Whether assessments agree
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Done by hand today
Severity is a judgement call, and two inspectors can grade the same defect differently.
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Automated with BlackRoad
One model grades every defect on the same scale, with a confidence score.
- Time to a work order
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Done by hand today
Notes and photos are written up and keyed in before anyone can act.
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Automated with BlackRoad
A located, graded defect lands in your asset system with no transcribing.
Road defect detection
Fourteen defect types, graded for severity
Potholes, cracking, rutting, edge breaks and more, so you know whether a road needs a patch or a rebuild.
- Potholes
- Alligator cracking
- Longitudinal cracking
- Transverse cracking
- Rutting
- Ravelling & fretting
- Edge deterioration
- Patch & utility cut failure
- Faded road markings
- Damaged & obscured signage
- Ironwork & manhole defects
- Standing water & drainage
- Debris & obstructions
- Vegetation encroachment
Reporting
Automated condition reporting
Groundtruth turns detection data into a formatted PDF report for any reporting period, ready for councillors, auditors and internal review, with no manual data preparation.
- Executive summary and network coverage
- Open defects by severity, type and workflow status
- Photographic record of the highest-priority defects
- Response times and compliance
- Defect locations by road
- Methodology and data provenance
Questions
What councils ask before a pilot
Can we run a pilot before committing?
Yes, and we would encourage it. A standard pilot runs three months on a defined part of your road network, measured from the day it goes live rather than the day you order, with a fixed price and no obligation to continue.
What does it cost?
Pricing is per fitted vehicle per year, inclusive of hardware, connectivity, processing, and support.
How long before we are up and running?
About twelve weeks from order to a live pilot, and almost all of that is hardware. We build to order rather than holding stock, so components take around two months to reach us, then roughly a week to assemble and a week to ship to you.
How do you handle privacy law and filming in public?
Faces and number plates are found and permanently blurred by the unit in the vehicle before any footage is saved. Identifiable imagery never leaves the vehicle and is never transmitted or retained.
More on accuracy, data and procurement in the full FAQ.
See a road condition survey of your network
Book a demo to see it on your roads, then run a fixed-price three-month pilot with no obligation to continue.
Not ready to talk? Email [email protected] and ask anything.