Is there a desired maximum inspection time?
Is there a desired inspection throughput or cycle time that the proposed solution should target, such as a minimum number of catch basins per day or a maximum time per basin, that would represent a meaningful improvement over current inspection methods?
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The SBIR project Phase I includes a marketing-research component and some marketing support that may answer these questions in detail. The main benefits of the proposed project are: 1. to get humans of the pavement in the right of way to reduce or eliminate roadside injuries and deaths among maintenance workers. 2. To provide useful, standard, and transferable information in a digital format that will support actionable maintenance and asset management decision-making. The main benefit of a new approach would not be an inspection production rate, although the ability to visit many catch basins per day would be a selling point.