The city of Calgary's mobility operations centre where roads across Calgary are monitored by employees.
Initial tests by the City of Calgary in using artificial intelligence show it can do a better job of detecting potential potholes, cracks and other road defects than humans can.Initial tests by the City of Calgary in using artificial intelligence show it can do a better job of detecting potential potholes, cracks and other road defects than humans can.
"You throw this training set into the model and the model, from that set, will learn these defects and when it learns, it means the model will become ready," he said.What the AI program was able to do had everyone on the project feeling pretty excited. "It can predict where those defects will propagate and come up with a priority repair program so that we can address deficiencies in advance of any failure or any further deficiencies in the roadway," said McLeod.So far this year, the city has patched about 25,000 potholes. That program costs more than $6 million annually. The city also typically spends about $40 million a year repaving roadways where the pavement has reached the end of its lifecycle.
That higher quality video will be fed into the AI program to further test its effectiveness at spotting current and potential problems in the asphalt.The chief information technology officer for the City of Calgary, Jan Bradley, said the work is "incredibly exciting."
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