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RODAS: Road Damage Assessment System for Efficient Road Maintenance

RODAS is a summer 2010 Heinz College internship project at Carnegie Mellon University, aiming to streamline road assessment using cell phones. The project addresses the slow devolution of PA roads to localities and the lack of specific road data. By utilizing cell phone technology and community volunteers, RODAS offers a cost-effective solution for assessing road conditions and prioritizing maintenance. The system involves uploading pictures for location mapping, exploring data on a public map, and classifying road damage with the help of either community volunteers or Amazon Mechanical Turk. The Chilean experience with road maintenance competitions inspired this initiative to engage the public in ensuring road infrastructure upkeep. The next steps for RODAS involve developing essential software components to make the system operational, aligning it with previous urban maintenance projects while emphasizing a community-based design.

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RODAS: Road Damage Assessment System for Efficient Road Maintenance

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  1. Road Damage Assessment SystemRODAS A Summer 2010 Heinz College Internship ProjectCarnegie Mellon University Summer Financial Support provided by the Pennsylvania Business Council Veronica Acha-Alvarez Graduate Student – Candidate MSc in Public Policy and Management Class of May, 2011 Academic Supervisors: Professor Takeo Kanade(Carnegie Mellon, Robotics Institute) and Professor Robert Strauss(Carnegie Mellon, Heinz College)15 August 2010

  2. Road Responsibilities in PA • Slow devolution of most PA roads to localities. • Most of the local roads arenot well characterized: • Missing location/specific road condition data • 3,400 miles of local roads get federal money so • Penn Dot will characterize them next year 2

  3. Current technology to collect state road information • Roadware's Automatic Road Analyzer • Current cost of getting road quality data $63/mile. 76,000 miles of local roads * $63/mile  $4.8 million

  4. Overview of cell phone approach to road assessment: RODAS – Road Damage Assessment System 1 4

  5. different data collection strategies $63/mi $15.54/u $99/u More $, less volunteers Less $, more volunteers 5 http://www.dot7.state.pa.us/VideoLog/Navigation/Disclaimer.aspx http://www.walmart.com/

  6. Model for a cell phone software application Sources: http://iconsdepot.com/tenius-iphone-icon-set/ http://www.dezinerfolio.com/freebie/30-free-vector-icons 6

  7. Example of what a volunteer can collect Forbes Ave – West to East 38 seconds, Iphone 1st G device, 12 fps, ~35 mph, no GPS localization 7

  8. Model for a cell phone software application 8

  9. Video split into pictures to start assessment process(sample) 9

  10. Step 1: Location of uploaded pictures placed onto a (public) Google map

  11. Step 2: Public exploration of the uploaded red dots on (public) Google map

  12. Step 3: Two Data Processing Pot Hole Classification Alternatives A – Community Volunteers B – Amazon Mechanical Turk

  13. Step 4: Post repair (green dots)repeated uploading of location of pictures in a (public) Google map

  14. Distributed Road Assessment 14

  15. 2007 Urban Crater campaign - AUCH, a Chilean community of motorists The 2009 Winner: 2010 - Crater Bicentennial campaign. Public Comment: “We pay the registration certificate, gasoline specific tax, free flow tolls, regular tolls, parking meters, insurance, technical reviews” “The least we expect is that the authorities maintain the road infrastructure in good condition” The Chilean experience:The competition to find the largest pot hole in Chile Deep Impact 7.8 ft

  16. Amazon Mechanical Turk's site 16

  17. Fall, 2010 Next Steps for RODAS • 2 major pieces of software needed to make RODAS operational: • Iphone application tailored to CMU server environment • CMU Server/Database and Classification System • 2009 Iburgh Project at CMU vs. CityConnect in Boston • Both projects streamed community video to city maintenance departments; RODAS is community based in design • August 23, 2010: 4 undergraduates + Veronica get started with likely cooperation of IT Department of City of Boston/CityConnect • Support of stakeholders (transportation companies, road contractors, and public agencies would make sense, but has not happened) • Basic idea of trusted 3rd party authentication with location and time stamp of state of affairs (video image) has widespread application

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