100 kilometers of roads will be filmed in Villefranche-sur-Saône. No, it’s not the car Google street view who will take care of it, but Geoptisthe subsidiary of La Poste group. However, the principle remains the same. Two camerasplaced by suction cups on the back and front of a mail truck, will capture images of the Caladoise roads for a month.
“We will establish a diagnosis of the quality of the roads or urban heritage (posts, ground marking awareness signs, etc.)“, explain Jeremy Picotcustomer, business and community manager for the La Poste group.
Requested by the town hall, this audit concerns the identification of existing problems and the risks of degradation, like potholes, cracks, etc. Added to this, Geoptis will reference the entireurban equipment pour “establish a map in case of need for intervention“.
“On each tour, we [NDLR : les postiers] is responsible for installing the suction cups and installing the cameras. You just need to turn them on and off at the start and end of the tour“, explain Jonathan Martinez. This postal worker for two years then emphasizes that the post services transmit the videos to Geoptis. “We take advantage of mail delivery to film, in order to avoid additional carbon emissions.“, says Jérémie Picot.
The images are then sent to datascientistsof the geomaticianswhich, using theartificial intelligence, will interpret the images and classify the risks. “The risk of anomalies is assessed using scores from 1 to 10.“, adds Jérémie Picot.
Optimize road work budgets
Once the data has been processed and the recommendations written, the municipal services take charge of the analysis. In the absence of the Villefranche elected official in charge of this file, the municipality was not able to answer our questions. Nevertheless, Jérémie Picot believes that this initiative would “to optimize the operating budgets of the works. The analysis will enable the establishment of intervention priorities and preventive action..”
According to him, this would be cheaper to intervene upstream road defects. “Preventative work costs €1, while curative work costs €5“, he illustrates. Still in his explanation, he believes that the return on investments would be done in the three months.
If in the BeaujolaisIt’s a first, Gleizé should follow Villefranche’s initiative and plans an audit in July, for delivery of the analysis in August.
