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The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) manages transportation assets worth $21.9 billion. Our transportation system moves people, goods, freight, and emergency vehicles through the city. Our policy statement, reporting, risk assessment, and asset list illustrated in one chart.
Overview
The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) manages transportation assets worth $21.9 billion with an unmet need of $6.6 billion in deferred maintenance costs. Portland’s transportation system helps move people, goods, freight and emergency response vehicles through the city. Motor vehicles, mass transit, bicyclists and pedestrians all benefit from the development, operations, and maintenance of Portland’s infrastructure. Portland’s transportation system is a network of streets, sidewalks, bike lanes, bridges, traffic control devices, parking facilities, streetcars, and an aerial tram. These combined assets make Portland one of the most livable cities in the country.
Policy statement
PBOT utilizes our Asset Management Policy Statement as a way to effectively and efficiently allocate resources, measure performance, and track infrastructure needs. PBOT’s Asset Management Advisory Committee (which includes engineers and operations staff as well as maintenance, finance, and information technology managers) sets the priorities for asset management within the bureau and helps implement those priorities into business practices.
Reporting
PBOT's Pavement Management System (PMS) enables reporting on condition of streets based upon a new visual inspection methodology. With this system, PBOT can determine maintenance timing and needs on all arterial, collector and local streets that PBOT owns and maintains. The PMS will help PBOT effectively and efficiently prioritize the allocation of revenue to address pavement needs.
PBOT currently conducts condition monitoring on pavement, bridges, structures, street lights, and traffic signal infrastructure. PBOT is working with engineers and technology staff to expand condition monitoring to guardrail and warning and regulatory signs. Condition monitoring will allow PBOT to plan for appropriate preventive maintenance, rehabilitation or replacement needs and budget accordingly.
The Asset Status and Condition report is an asset management tool for tracking the physical assets owned by PBOT – specifically, their condition, any unmet funding needs for proper maintenance, and the major accomplishments that were completed in each asset category in the previous fiscal year.
Risk assessment
PBOT is in the process of conducting a risk assessment for failure of assets. Criteria for assessing consequences and likelihood of failure have been created and are being applied to transportation assets. A risk registry, identifying failure modes and assigning risk of failure, will be created.
Assets at a glance
A $21.9 billion transportation system has many elements. Some, like our streetcar and roads, are large-scale pieces of infrastructure valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Others, like our street signs or sidewalk corners, support a mobile and connected city in smaller, but no less vital ways. The variety of active assets PBOT is responsible for helps explain the wide-ranging and multifaceted nature of our work. We are proud of the fact that, by maintaining and operating these assets, we can contribute to the high quality of life in Portland. Note: this graphic does not include permanently closed assets or ones being decommissioned
Download our most recent PBOT Assets graphic below:
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Here is a list of PBOT assets displayed graphically in the above chart, alphabetical by asset category:
| Asset | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Aerial Tram cars | 2 |
| Bike racks | 7,679 |
| Bikeways | 462.1 centerline miles* |
| Bridges | 159 |
| Buildings/yards | 6 |
| Corners | 38,439 |
| Crosswalks (marked) | 6,334 |
| Curbs | 3,181 centerline miles* |
| Elevators | 3 |
| Fiber optics, copper cables | 242 miles |
| Guardrails | 24 centerline miles* |
| Harbor wall | 5,134 feet |
| Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) equipment | 1,820 devices |
| Lane lines | 1,425 centerline miles* |
| Markings, parking | 64 miles |
| Markings, all other types (e.g., bike symbols, turn arrows, and bike lanes) | 58,673 |
| Parking garages | 5 |
| Parking pay stations | 2,134 |
| Pavement (arterial and collector streets) | 1,895 lane miles* |
| Pavement (local streets) | 2,986 lane miles* |
| Retaining walls | 657 |
| Safety lights (flashing beacons, overhead crosswalk, island lights) | 362 installations |
| Sidewalks | 3,209 miles** |
| Signs, street names | 42,071 |
| Signs, all other types (regulatory, parking, school, bike, etc.) | 145,784 |
| Speed bumps | 2,753 |
| Stairways | 189 |
| Streetcar tracks | 15 centerline miles* |
| Streetcar transit shelters/stops | 66 |
| Streetcars | 19 |
| Streetlight poles | 18,550 |
| Streetlights | 60,908 |
| Traffic cameras | 30 |
| Traffic signals | at 994 intersections |
| Tunnels | 4 |
*Centerline miles refers to the length of the road; lane miles is a term for measuring pavement (1 lane mile = 1 mile of road x 1 standard lane width)
**Sidewalk mileage is a rough estimate of length based on typical sidewalk width of 4-6 feet.
PBOT asset condition maps
PBOT manages thousands of transportation assets that keep Portland moving, including bridges, pavement, sidewalks, signals, and streetlights. Knowing the condition of these assets helps us plan maintenance, set priorities, and invest wisely in our transportation system. The maps below highlight the areas where critical infrastructure investments are needed either due to age, condition, or safety improvements.
Bridge risk map
View all of the 159 PBOT-owned bridges, including the bridges designated as higher risk due to age or weight restriction.
Pavement condition maps
Explore the 4,881 lane miles of Portland's street network. These maps also highlight streets that are in poor or very poor condition, as well as provide an overall condition rating for both the entire network and each city district.
Sidewalk completeness map
PBOT is working on eliminating sidewalk gaps and ensuring sidewalk access is available on both sides of the street. See where PBOT's current gaps are across the city.
Streetlight condition map
Under Vision Zero goals, PBOT has identified areas that need better street lighting. This map highlights where those needs are and where the streetlights in poor or very poor condition are located.
Streets of citywide significance
Streets of citywide significance are ones that play a critical role in moving people and goods across the entire city. PBOT designates these streets to help strategically invest limited transportation funding where it delivers the greatest citywide benefit.
These streets support high-volume travel, transit service, freight movement, emergency response, and prioritized biking and pedestrian routes, also known as neighborhood greenways.
View the streets of citywide significance map
Definitions
A street may be designated as a street of citywide significance if it:
- Serves as a major corridor for vehicles, transit, freight, emergency services, walking, or biking
- Supports transit service
- Designated as a Neighborhood Greenway
Together, these streets form a network that supports travel across Portland and helps PBOT focus investments where the city will have the greatest overall impact.
Fixing Our Streets
Revenue from the local 10-cent gas tax and heavy vehicle use tax known as the Fixing Our Streets program is largely invested in streets of citywide significance. This voter-approved approach ensures the funding is directed to streets that serve the most people, support citywide travel and access, and deliver the greatest return on public investment.