ABOUT US

​IMS believes that infrastructure budgets should always be supported by expert analysis and the most reliable, objective data. This core belief has led us on a 30 year journey throughout North America with the most talented engineers, technicians, and analysts in the pavement management field. If you are looking to manage your roads, sidewalks or right-of-way assets, IMS will steer you in the right direction. 

OUR TRACK RECORD

Infrastructure Management Services is an independently owned and operated pavement distress data collection firm with offices in Tempe, Arizona,  Rolling Meadows, Illinois, and Cambridge, Ontario. Since its inception in 1985, IMS has progressively developed new automated pavement data collection technologies together with real-world software applications to become a recognized international leader in the field of pavement management and right of way asset management.

IMS has completed more than 600 pavement management projects and right-of-way asset management assignments for government agencies and private-sector companies throughout the United States and Canada. As an entity, IMS has:

• Completed projects for over 600 city and county agencies, 22 large-scale public works departments, and 9 state agencies and transportation authorities.
• Collected data for more than 15 different software platforms, ranging from our own proprietary systems, to 3rd party programs including: Lucity; Deighton's dTIMS; Hansen's Street Module; Cartegraph (CarteGraph’s PAVEMENTview, CarteGraphs’s SIGNALview and CarteGraphs’s SIGNview); MTC's (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) StreetSaver; and PAVER (i.e. MicroPAVER).
• Internally developed 4 pavement management and asset management applications.
• Performed work with more than 8 database and mapping applications.
• Developed revolutionary data collection tools that set the standard for objective automated pavement surveys.
• Operated an advanced, state-of-the-art fleet of data collection units.” 

In addition to providing pavement management software and services, IMS operates an advanced, state-of-the-art fleet of data collection units. 

​OUR EQUIPMENT

Road Surface Testers (RST)
The RST is capable of collecting automated pavement condition data and right-of-way asset data in a single pass. The RST incorporates lasers; distance measuring instruments; accelerometers and rate gyroscopes; inertial navigation based GPS; and high resolution, forward, downward and side view digital images and video. Through the use of the pavement data collection vehicles’ laser-camera array, the RST collects objective pavement surface distress data, roughness, and rutting.

Dynaflects
Dynaflects provide nondestructive, multi-sensor dynamic deflection data for pavement structure analysis. Dynaflects have a long history of collecting dependable, repeatable data, and may be used on asphalt and concrete roads.

Sidewalk Surface Testers (SST)
The SST is a proprietary device created by IMS that is uniquely suited to assess the condition of sidewalk systems. Our operators are trained to collect a variety of distress-related data on up to hundreds of miles of sidewalks. This data is critical in helping our clients stay ahead of legal liability and ensure walkable, safe sidewalks.

Our fleet of automated data collection vehicles performs pavement surface distress surveys, rutting and roughness surveys, deflection surveys, multi-camera video logging, and is capable of creating a right of way asset inventory. Our pavement management software and right of way asset software solutions provide the tools required to meet the complex challenges within both urban and rural environments.