Asset Management for Small Highway Departments

Asset Management for Small Highway Departments
January 14, 2025
Listed in Asset Management

For small highway departments, managing road, sign, drainage, and signal assets can feel overwhelming, especially when you're short on staff, time, and budget. Yet without a reliable system to track the condition and maintenance history of your infrastructure, your department is flying blind.

That's where a purpose-built asset management solution like Roadwurx comes in.

Why Small Highway Departments Need Asset Management

Even if your municipality has fewer than 100 miles of road, you’re still responsible for a complex network of assets: culverts, signs, catch basins, guardrails, signals, and more. Without a system in place, it's easy to lose track of:

  • When a culvert was last inspected

  • Whether a stop sign meets MUTCD retroreflectivity requirements

  • Which roads were crack sealed last year

  • How many drainage structures were vacuumed this spring

When you’re relying on scattered spreadsheets, memory, or notebooks in the truck, things fall through the cracks. That’s not just inefficient, it can lead to liability, regulatory issues, and wasted resources.

Built Specifically for You

Roadwurx isn’t a one-size-fits-all public works platform. It was created specifically for small and mid-sized highway departments that need something simple, powerful, and affordable.

It doesn’t try to manage your water plant or run your HR department. It’s focused entirely on the core infrastructure that highway departments maintain: roads, signs, drainage systems, traffic signals, and even fleet assets - without bogging you down in complexity.

Feature-Rich, Budget-Friendly

What sets Roadwurx apart is that it offers real value without the sticker shock. In fact, Roadwurx is very likely the least expensive asset management software you'll find that's actually built for highway departments, and it still manages to deliver an impressive array of features:

  • Asset tracking for roads, signs, culverts, catch basins, etc.

  • Upload and store photos and inspection notes

  • Phone call records

  • Retroreflectivity testing and history logs

  • Pavement condition data storage (PCI or surface condition)

  • Stormwater and MS4 maintenance tracking

  • Work order history for each road

  • And more…

With Roadwurx, you get full functionality for one flat price. No surprise add-ons, no locked features, no upsells.

See our current pricing here: https://roadwurx.com/roadwurx-cost.html

Designed by Someone Who Understands the Job

Roadwurx wasn’t built by software consultants trying to sell to big-city IT departments. It was developed by someone who worked inside a highway department, served as a deputy superintendent, and knows exactly what tools are needed, and which ones aren’t.

That real-world experience shows in every part of the platform. Roadwurx is intuitive enough for your foreman to use with no-to-minimal training, yet robust enough to document your department’s work and protect you from liability.


If you're still trying to manage your highway assets with paper, spreadsheets, or outdated software, it's time for a change. Roadwurx is purpose-built for departments like yours—and it won’t blow your budget to get started.

See how little Roadwurx costs today