Anglesey demonstrates proactive highways asset management with
The Isle of Anglesey County Council is benefiting from visualised asset management software from highway survey and technology company Yotta DCL.
The North Wales authority has a unique mix of urban and rural A, B, C and unclassified roads across its 764 square kilometres( 276 square miles). The highway network, which is just short of 1200 kilometres has been loaded into their Horizons web-based platform to help the Council improve its approach to asset management and ensure the best decisions are made to maintain its roads.
With very tight budgets, Anglesey receives additional funds from the Welsh Government under the Local Government Borrowing Initiative( LGBI) to help with maintaining its network. The Council used Horizons to produce its 15-year forecast and demonstrate that it is making best use of this funding to the Welsh Government and other stakeholders.
Anglesey and Yotta DCL in partnership
The Council has a long-standing relationship with Yotta DCL, which began in 2009 when the company performed a high-definition Asset Inventory video survey using its unique six-camera vehicle-based system. The survey was to improve Anglesey’ s existing inventory data, which was out of date and incomplete. Anglesey wanted to complete the asset inventory quickly and cost effectively and knew that Yotta DCL had done similar work for neighbouring authorities in North Wales.