Introduction

This chapter of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission’s StreetSaver® 9.0 User’s Guide contains information the user needs to make use of the StreetSaver® program. It includes a summary of the program’s background and purpose, an outline of its structure and uses, and an overview of the remaining chapters of this guide. 

Background and Purpose

MTC pavement management program was originally developed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission of the San Francisco Bay Area, with Professor Roger E. Smith, now with Texas A & M University; and with the assistance of six Bay Area jurisdictions: Alameda County, Santa Clara County, Solano County, Berkeley, San Leandro, and Portola Valley.

The current version of StreetSaver® 9.0 is a network-level (as opposed to project-level) tool that allows a local jurisdiction to quickly and efficiently include maintenance and rehabilitation budget allocation strategies through the use of “what if” reports.  

StreetSaver® 9.0 features a new look, with an easier to use interface, and an Events-Based calculation module which allows the construction date, updates the parent deterioration curve to accommodate revisions of event data and recalculates the PCI as events are added or revised. 

The StreetSaver® 9.0 program is intended to meet a number of objectives. It is designed to be easy-to-use, even for those users who are not familiar with database management, or who use the program infrequently. To make it feasible for implementation by local jurisdictions, the program is also relatively inexpensive.