Roads

Roads is the part of AssetLink for the streets themselves. You do not build a road map first. The street network for your area is already loaded, cut into blocks from one intersection to the next, and you say things about it as you go: a crew worked here, this road is ours, this block is in poor shape.

The words this guide uses

• A block is one stretch of road between two intersections. It is the smallest piece of road you can mark, describe or rate.
• A street is every block that carries the same name.
• A section is your own named group of blocks, such as "S-12, Elm St from Main to Oak". Sections arrive when you import an inventory you already keep.
• Ours, Not ours, Nobody has said are the three answers to "whose road is this?". A road nobody has answered for is not assumed to be yours or anybody else's.

What you can do

Where things are

• Roads, in the left menu, is where the daily work happens: the map, the street list, marking and rating.
• Settings, then the Roads tab, holds your rating scale, your lists of surface types and distresses, and the inventory import.
• Reports, then Roads Inventory, counts what you have said about your network.

Who can do what

Anyone who can make changes in AssetLink can record road work, mark blocks, describe them and rate them. Three things are for admins only: changing the rating scale, changing the surface type and distress lists, and importing an inventory. A read-only login can look at everything and change nothing: a line at the top of every page says so, and the buttons that change things are greyed out.

A good first hour

1. Open Roads and switch the map to Blocks.
2. Mark the streets that are yours. An area drawn around a neighbourhood does many at once. See Marking which roads are yours.
3. Rate one street you know well, to see how a rating looks on the map. See Rating condition.
4. The next time a crew patches something, draw it. See Recording road work.