Utility repair tag

Utility repair tag (also known as A-tag, asphalt tag and road cut medallion) is a plastic color-coded pavement marker embedded in the top surface of an asphalt utility cut restoration to identify the responsible party of that pavement repair or patch.

[3] In 1987, a patent application was filed by Richard E. Sanchez to create a flat disc plastic wafer to be used as a utility cut patch identification tag.

Prior to that, government regulations required identification washer to be nailed into the pavement, which created many issues.

That caused the city to search for a solution and eventually adopt the same utility repair tag approach in 2011.

For example, different shades of yellow tags are used for Empire City Subway, Long Island Power Authority, and Buckeye Pipeline.

[11] Information on the tags includes the company name, agency name or private contractor number, and two digit year in the middle.

[13] A research in Indiana proposed to use radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to be embedded in the pavements and patches.