Employing economical methods for pavement defects estimation

Abstract

It is a common practise that measurements of road surface conditions are made using professional and expensive apparatus. Typically a van or a truck equipped with a set of professional sensors i.e. laser scanners of surface is used, therefore the measurement update period is often quite long. Two alternative low-cost methods for estimating road pavement defects and failures were proposed and investigated by the authors. The first one is based on accelerometers application and the other one employs image analysis acquired by cameras installed on a vehicle.

Crowdsourced Driving Comfort Monitoring

“…potholes or speed bumps using different methods [6,7]. Vibration-based methods [8] are usually compared to video analytics [9]. The crowdsourcing aspects were discussing aggregation and visualization techniques [10], data synergy from multiple sourcing data [11] or proposed different online systems for data aggregation [12].…”