Road inventory app quick start guide 1.0

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.


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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

http://www.roadroid.com/

http://www.roadroid.com/

http://www.linkedin.com/company/roadroid

http://www.twitter.com/roadroid

http://www.facebook.com/roadroid

http://www.slideshare.net/LarsForslf/presentations


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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

http://www.irap.org/en/resources/specifications

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