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Abstract:The key project objective was to assess and evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of
custom software used in smartphones to measure road roughness from the
accelerometer data collected from smartphones and compare results with PASER
(Pavement Surface and Evaluation Rating System) and IRI (International Roughness
Index) measurement values collected from the same roadway segments. This
project is MDOT’s first large implementation of a customized Android smartphone
to collect road roughness data using a methodology developed from previous
research work performed by UMTRI. Accelerometer data collection was
performed via Android-based smartphones using a customized software application
called DataProbe. During the project’s initial phase smartphones were installed in
each of nine Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) vehicles driven by
MDOT employees. These same vehicles also were used during 2012 and 2013 to collect data on road distress using PASER Ratings for comparison.
The DataProbe software application was used to collect data and transmit it to a
University of Michigan Transportation Research server, where it was sorted, stored,
and analyzed. All MDOT regions are represented in this analysis that compares
road roughness ratings for nearly 6000 one tenth of a mile road segments. For the
second phase of the project, road distress (PASER Rating) data was collected in
2014 simultaneously with an MDOT vehicle equipped with an IRI device and two
DataProbe smartphones and two UMTRI vehicles equipped with five DataProbe
smartphones.
The analysis of the 2012 and 2013 data found that there were a number of
significant predictors of IRI road roughness including: the phone and the vehicle
used to collect the data, the speed of the vehicle collecting the data, the type of road
surface, date of data collection, and accelerometer variance. By including quadratic
terms to adjust for non-linear relationships and interactions among the predictors
studied in this project, the multiple regression model predicted nearly 45 percent and
43 percent of the variance in IRI values, respectively. An analysis of commonly
used IRI categories (3 level/5 level) using ordinal logistic regression found that
DataProbe accurately predicted these categories 68/71 percent of the time (2012
data), 77/76 percent of the time (2013 data).
Analysis of the data collected in 2014 showed multiple regression models with
variance among accelerometer measurements and speed accounting for 37 percent
of the variance, while the ordinal logistic regression accurately predicted the IRI (3
level/5 level) categories 86/83 percent of the time. These results are promising
when considering the near term application of the DataProbe technology for smaller
locales that drive over their local roads more often, generating web-based road
roughness visuals of each of the roads in their jurisdiction. In the longer term, statewide
road roughness measurement may be performed through the crowd-sourcing
model available through Connected Vehicle initiatives, where all vehicles will be
equipped with devices that support safety applications as well as other applications
such as those that measure road roughness.
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