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Quick start guide, Road Inventory App (1.0) – December 2014
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The Road inventory App to support visual road inventory’s with a smartphone
The Road Inventory app for android smartphones registers ocular input of the road in real
time. It saves the condition in 5 levels of a certain defect or parameter you have dialed in.
Data is saved every second and the app use the Androids GPS to add Longitude, Latitude,
Speed and Altitude of the data.
You have available a catalogue of over 100 parameters ranging from average road condition
to detailed cracking inventory´s, and from earth roads and some basic iRAP parameters. The
collected data is uploaded to a web service described in a separate user guide.
The huge benefits with the Road Inventory app compared to pen and paper is:
- Saves lots of time and increase security of field work! You don’t have to stop along the road and
check where you are and take notes – you just drive along and make the registrations on the fly.
- It saves even more time back at your office! You just upload your data and it is all there at your
desktop. No need of interpretation of notes.
- More detailed. Normally you note the average state in 100 meter sections, with the Road
Inventory app you can note differences every second (every 10 meter in 36 km/h).
- Powerful and immediate visualization on maps. View collected layers in the web tool.
- Export as .txt files in 20-200 meter segments for direct import to HDM4 or other RMMS.
The Road inventory app is easy to use and highly portable - bring anywhere and run on battery for
many hours. Its also durable - and there is no expensive o rare spare parts.
Quick start guide, Road Inventory App (1.0) – December 2014
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Introduction Use an android smartphone or tab with OS greater than 4.x. Download the installation file at [PM us
for download location].
NOTE: You need to email us your units IMEI-number or MAC-adress to get registered and import your
data. And you need to get a user login to the Road Data Management System at www.roadroid.com
to access your data.
This user guide assumes basic knowledge of Android phones and operating system. Please advise your phones user guide or tutorials if you are unsure of Android operating system. Please use following documents for information you cannot find here:
1) Essential guide - covering the principles of the Roadroid roughness data collection (IRI) app and the internet based Road Data Management System (RDMS).
2) The reference project sheet to learn more about the system at whole, some reference projects/user cases and a short history of Roadroid company.
3) User guide for RDMS (still under work dec 2014). Documents should be found at www.roadroid.com, and please also find our updates at: - Linked in: www.linkedin.com/company/roadroid - Twitter: www.twitter.com/roadroid - Facebook: www.facebook.com/roadroid - Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/LarsForslf/presentations
Quick start guide, Road Inventory App (1.0) – December 2014
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Quick manual for the Roadroid Inventory app Before any surveys is possible you need to set your email address under menu/settings/User
Equipment ID.
1. Start and view parameters When started, long press one of the 5 user configurable buttons (the long yellow ones) and select an
inventory category. If you scroll down in the inventory category list you can reset the button if you
earlier have assigned an inventory parameter the specific button.
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2. Select parameters Select an inventory parameter to assign to the 5 buttons. Normally you can make 2-3 at the same
time. It depends on parameter types, road type and survey speed. Make the procedure again until
you have assigned the parameters you want to survey (left below).
In case right above we have assigned inventory parameters to three buttons: 0 Average condition, 1
Paved roads and 3 Earth roads.
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3. Activate parameters (get ready) Activate the inventory parameters you want to measure by short pressing or tapping the button. The
activated buttons (inventory parameters) will get a green color.
In the case below we omitted 3 Earth roads – Side slope parameter since it still has a yellow color.
Note: First when Lat and Lng got values you have a GPS signal and can start survey.
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4. Start and stop survey! Start the survey by pressing the START/STOP text (button) in the action bar.
The action bar is located below the status bar (where the clock, battery indicator etc. is).
The app starts to record indicating with the red “Recording!” at left in the action bar and the distance
measurement below begin to count when you start move.
While driving and surveying - press the corresponding classification button for each of the inventory
parameter.
The Road inventory app is very operator intensive – be active and remember to change back
if the status changes. Don’t operate the app and drive at the same time!
VGood means Very Good and the scale is ranging down to Bad in 5 levels. Please advise your
pavement or road inspection manual to find out how to interpret your parameters of choice.
To stop the survey/measurement press the START/STOP text (button) again in the action bar.
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5. Upload your data While you are collecting data, you don’t need an internet - 3G/WiFI connection.
But when you want to transfer your recordings by uploading your data – you will need it.
To upload the survey/measurement press the UPLOAD text (button) in the action bar. If there is no
room for text an upload icon is visible instead.
6. Menu/Settings
By pressing the overflow menu (the three square dots) in the action bar or menu button (if available)
you can enter the Settings. Find there some different user settings available (as to set your email
address under User Equipment ID).
7. Table of inventory parameters
Average conditions VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Pavement Advise inventory manual
Cracking "
Gravel
Earth road
Flexible/DBST
Concrete
Shoulder
Sidecut
Drainage
Embankments
Cutting
Potholes
Loose chippings
Slippery road
Floodedarea
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Paved roads VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Rutting "
Cracking
Raveling
Flushing/bleeding
Shoving
Patching
Pumping
Corrugation
Sags and humps
Edge breaks
Pothole
Road marking
Camber/Profile
Pavement loss
Widening
Concrete road VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Cracking "
Poppouts
Spalling
Corner Break
Scaling
Blowups
Faulting
Pumping
LTS Dropoff
Edge breaks
Severity Patch
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Earth road VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Roughness "
Top/Surface
Gradation/Mix
Binding/Dust
Cross section
Super-elevation
Side slope
Width
Stability
Road slide
Action: Grading/shaping
Action: Re-material Define levels
Action: Stab/dust ctrl "
Gravel road VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Roughness "
Side slope
Top/Surface
Gradation/Mix
Binding/Dust
Cross section
Super-elevation
Width <3,5 m 3,5-4,5 4,5-5,5 5,5-6,5 >6,5
Stability
Road slide
Action: Grading
Action: Regravel Define levels
Action: Stab/dust ctrl "
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Detailed cracking VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Alligator cracking "
Raveling cracking
Longitudinal cracking
Non WP long cracking
Transverse cracking
Block cracking
Thermal cracking
Wide cracking
FatigueCracking
DiagonalCracking
HairCracking
MapCracking
Crack seal condition
Road equipment VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Guard rails
Concrete barriers
Noise barriers
Road signs
Guid posts
Retaining wall
Erosion protection
Road Curb
Road marking
Reflexes/cateyes
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Road side VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Road side safety
Illegal road signs
Sight distance
Vergemaintenance
Road_side_clerance
Plantations
Cut height/slope
Cut rock outcrops
Slip/Slide/Rockfall
Cross space
Winter roads VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Winter ruts
Slush on road
Ice on road
Snow on road
Road side marking
Snow ditches
Wall cutting
Snow fences
Frost damages
Action: Plowing
Action: Grading
Action: Salt spread Define levels
Action: Sand spread "
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iRAP essentials VGood Good Fair Poor Bad Comment
Motorcycle flow None 1 2-3 4-5 6-7
Bicycle flow None 1 2-3 4-5 6-7
Ped. driver flow None 1 2-3 4-5 6-7
Ped. pass. flow None 1 2-3 4-5 6-7
Land_use_Driver_side Un-
developed Farm/
Agricult Commer-
sial Educat-
ional Industry/-
Manuf.
Land_use_Pass._side Un-
developed Farm/
Agricult Commer-
sial Educat-
ional Industry/-
Manuf.
Shoulder rumble strip Present
Not present
Centerl. rumble strip Present
Not present
Paved shoulder driver >2,4m 1-2,4 m
Narrow <1m None
Paved shoulder pass >2,4m 1-2,4 m
Narrow <1m None
Number of lanes One Two + One Two
Three + two Three
Lane width >3,25m 2,75-3,25 0-2,75
Skid resistance Sealed Adeq.
Sealed Med.
Sealed Poor
Unseal Adeq.
Unseal - poor
Street lightning Present Not
present
Road works No works Minor works
Major works
For a deeper explanation of how to make iRAP inspections, please advise
http://www.irap.org/en/resources/specifications