{"id":210348,"date":"2026-02-05T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/city-of-ames-using-new-technology-for-street-repairs\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:40:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:40:13","slug":"city-of-ames-using-new-technology-for-street-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/city-of-ames-using-new-technology-for-street-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Ames using new technology for street repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/city-of-ames-public-works-street-repairs-technology-ai\/70257888\">City of Ames using new technology for street repairs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/city-of-ames-public-works-street-repairs-technology-ai\/70257888\">https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/city-of-ames-public-works-street-repairs-technology-ai\/70257888<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-05 11:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.kcci.com\">www.kcci.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIOWA\u2019S NEWS LEADER. THANK YOU. PEPPER. THE AMES PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT IS PILOTING PILOTING NEW TECHNOLOGY TO HELP WITH STREET REPAIRS. THAT INCLUDES REAL TIME DATA COLLECTIONS FOR STREET CONDITIONS. RIGHT NOW, THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DRIVES EVERY STREET IN THE CITY AND GIVES EACH A SCORE. THAT HAPPENS EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS. NOW THERE WILL BE SENSORS AND CAMERAS ON AMES CITY TRUCKS, WHICH CAN TRACK ROAD CONDITIONS IN REAL TIME. MEASURING HOW ROUGH THE PAVEMENT IS. BUT IT\u2019S ALSO TAKING THESE PHOTOS. AND THERE\u2019S ANOTHER LAYER OF PHOTOS THAT YOU DON\u2019T SEE THAT IT\u2019S LOOKING AT PAVEMENT DISTRESS. SO IT\u2019S TAKING THE PAVEMENT DISTRESS, THE PHOTOS, THE ROUGHNESS, AND THEN IT RUNS IT THROUGH ITS OWN MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHM AND IT SPITS OUT A SCORE. OTHER TECHNOLOGY INCLUDE\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Ames Public Works Department is piloting new technology to help with street repairs.  Right now, the Iowa Department of Transportation drives every street in the city every two years and gives each a score.  Now, there will be sensors and cameras on Ames city trucks, which can track road conditions in real time.Other technology includes using artificial intelligence to analyze video for sewer inspections.\u00bb Subscribe to KCCI&#8217;s YouTube page\u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: Apple | Google Play\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong class=\"dateline\">AMES, Iowa \u2014<\/strong> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Ames Public Works Department is piloting new technology to help with street repairs.  <\/p>\n<p>Right now, the Iowa Department of Transportation drives every street in the city every two years and gives each a score.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, there will be sensors and cameras on Ames city trucks, which can track road conditions in real time.<\/p>\n<p>Other technology includes using artificial intelligence to analyze video for sewer inspections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00bb <\/strong>Subscribe to KCCI&#8217;s YouTube page<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00bb Download the free KCCI app to get updates on the go: <\/strong>Apple | Google&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/city-of-ames-public-works-street-repairs-technology-ai\/70257888\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Ames using new technology for street repairs https:\/\/www.kcci.com\/article\/city-of-ames-public-works-street-repairs-technology-ai\/70257888 Publish Date: 2026-02-05 11:13:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/kubrick.htvapps.com\/vidthumb\/d4ea0164-afed-443d-8963-c01f144bf3a1\/cd65e172-a126-48e5-863c-4c676d71b748.jpg?crop=0.811xw:0.809xh;0.0717xw,0&resize=1200:*","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210350,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210348\/revisions\/210350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}