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About 11,600 pothole reports were made between 2020 and 2023, according to the department’s data – with a total of about 552,000 pothole repairs performed within the same timeframe.
Potholes occur with traffic over a roadway that has been weakened by water in the supporting soil structure. A pothole is a pot-shaped depression in a road surface, [1] usually asphalt pavement, where traffic has removed broken pieces of the pavement. It is usually the result of water in the underlying soil structure and traffic passing over ...
[1] [2] By the end of February 2017 municipal workers had identified more than 1,000 potholes. [2] In 2017 the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) launched a "patch-a-thon" to fast-track road repairs, but acknowledged that repairs to some roads would not be completed until summer 2017.
The pavement condition index (PCI) is a numerical index between 0 and 100, which is used to indicate the general condition of a pavement section.The PCI is widely used in transportation civil engineering [1] and asset management, and many municipalities use it to measure the performance of their road infrastructure and their levels of service. [2]
Kansas City’s pothole season got me, and it’ll cost me big. We need a better fix | Opinion
In addition to repair costs, the condition of a road surface has economic effects for road users. Rolling resistance increases on rough pavement, as does wear and tear of vehicle components. It has been estimated that poor road surfaces cost the average US driver $324 per year in vehicle repairs, or a total of $67 billion.
In Earth science, a pothole is a smooth, bowl-shaped or cylindrical hollow, generally deeper than wide, found carved into the rocky bed of a watercourse. Other names used for riverine potholes are pot , (stream) kettle , giant's kettle , evorsion , hollow , rock mill , churn hole , eddy mill , and kolk . [ 1 ]