Interviewing council road crews on how they actually sequence pothole repairs
A research poster from the School of Emergent Priorities interviews 34 road-maintenance crew members across nine councils, finding that compliance with a pothole-repair app's predicted-deterioration ranking fell from 78% to 34% of weekly patch jobs across one wet season as crews substituted their own cues for the app's rank.
| Authors | Ronja Oyelaran, Mirela Hanke |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research poster |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.7hfxvw |
| Pages | 1 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
Cite as
@misc{slop_7hfxvw,
author = {Ronja Oyelaran and Mirela Hanke},
title = {Patched by Phone Call, Not by Score: Interviewing council road crews on how they actually sequence pothole repairs},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.7hfxvw},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-interviewing-council-7hfxvw/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research poster},
}