Isle of Wight gets highway database

Isle of Wight Council has logged 140,000 road assets to create a comprehensive IT-based highways inventory.

The council has used the database to record the position of each asset and the condition it is in as part of a bid for a Public Finance Initiative (PFI) for highway maintenance.

Covering 822km of highways across the island, the system is integrated with the Ordnance Survey MasterMap system to give geographical locations for every single object in the database.

The database will be linked to other council systems to improve its fault reporting processes.

Isle of Wight Council's policy and strategy manager, Malcolm Smith, says the Mayrise supplied system allows it to store transport asset data for day-to-day highway management.

'If our bid for PFI funding is successful the contract would be worth £800m over 25 years,' he said.

'When you are talking about this scale of investment over this period of time it is vital that both the base data and the information management tools are fit for purpose and durable.'

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