NDLI: Towards a frugal framework for monitoring road quality

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bills, T. Bryant, R. Bryant, A.W.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: IBM Res. - Africa, Nairobi, Kenya (Bills, T.; Bryant, R.; Bryant, A.W.)
Abstract	Rapid urbanization of developing cities creates challenges for governments to update and maintain the city infrastructure. One particular challenge is to plan for road capacities that will sustain the growing demand for surface transportation on the road network. For these cities, a sophisticated road infrastructure that includes sensors (e.g., loop detectors and traffic cameras) and/or probe vehicles equipped to detect pavement roughness are ideal for traffic infrastructure management. However, the cost of such tools for developing cities is often prohibitively expensive. For these reasons, road infrastructure management strategies that are able to leverage low-cost technologies and data resources are highly sought after in these areas. We refer to these strategies as frugal innovations. In this paper we explore a frugal approach for monitoring road quality in Nairobi, Kenya. Our aim is to use characteristics of speed distributions to detect the presence of pavement distresses (including speed bumps) for Nairobi, Kenya's road network. We first derive link speeds from mobile GPS traces, and then perform graphical as well as quantitative distributional comparisons of the speed distributions on travel network links with speed bumps present, compared to links without speed bumps present. Our results support our hypotheses that distributional comparisons on travel speeds can indeed serve as useful tools to detect the presence of speed bumps and other road distresses.
Starting Page	3022
Ending Page	3027
File Size	2315683
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479960781
DOI	10.1109/ITSC.2014.6958175
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-10-08
Publisher Place	China
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Roads Vehicles Global Positioning System Data collection Intelligent sensors Cities and towns
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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