The City of Thunder Bay is planning to modernize how it tracks potholes by turning to artificial intelligence.

The city has issued a request for expressions of interest for an automatic pothole detection system, aiming to make road maintenance more efficient. According to Ian Spoljarich, the city’s roads manager, the new technology would replace Thunder Bay’s current manual inspection process, which still relies on pen, paper and logbooks.

“The system we're looking to implement uses a smart camera mounted on city vehicles to automatically scan and analyze the road conditions as the vehicle drives, and records any of those deficiencies and sends them back so that we can review afterwards,” said Spoljarich.

The goal, Spoljarich said, is to improve how the city tracks road deterioration ov

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