Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council has implemented a new mobile data collection solution from Mayrise to improve the efficiency of highways inspections, increase the accuracy of defect reporting and reduce the administrative burden of paper based reporting. Using HP hx2700 mobile devices Council Highways Inspectors upload inspection reports to a central MAYRISE highways management system.  This system then generates works orders/works sheets minimising the potential for errors and eliminating unnecessary paperwork.

"The mobile solution from Mayrise was introduced at the same time as the latest Code of Practice for Highways Maintenance," said Andy Herridge, Highways Maintenance Manager at Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council. "Without the PDA based inspection and defect collection system from Mayrise we would not have been able to implement elements of this Code."

Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council, based in South Wales, is a long-term user of Mayrise management tools. The Council already uses MAYRISE Street Works and MAYRISE Street Lighting as well as MAYRISE Highways and the new mobile data collection software. MAYRISE Highways was introduced in 2005 as a back office tool based upon the National Street Gazetteer (NSG), and is used to automate highways works orders and maintain additional highways related information, for example historical street works records, Works Registers and limited financial information. The Council also uses MapNow from Mayrise to add context and additional detail to highway related information by displaying the asset or feature against the OS mapping.

The introduction of MAYRISE Mobile for Highways has enabled the Council to link field based duties and operations to back office systems. Routine inspection schedules, generated by MAYRISE Highways, are downloaded to the Inspector’s PDA. On completion of a ‘beat’ street inspection records together with any defects noted are uploaded from the mobile units to the central management system, which processes the information and issues works orders to operational staff. The mobile data collection software is also used to record defects to Utilities Plant, Street Lighting, Fencing etc located in the highway and the Council is planning to issue Mayrise equipped PDA’s to Highways Engineers investigate ad hoc customer complaints and requests for service.

"The integrated mobile and back office solutions from Mayrise have eliminated paper based defect records," continued Andy Herridge. "The limited resources of our Highways Inspection team can now be applied to meeting our maintenance inspection duties rather than time consuming administrative tasks."

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