{"id":380840,"date":"2020-10-27T11:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T05:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=380840"},"modified":"2020-10-27T11:43:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T06:13:56","slug":"your-smartphone-data-may-help-report-road-status-for-quick-repair-this-is-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/your-smartphone-data-may-help-report-road-status-for-quick-repair-this-is-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Your smartphone data may help report road status for quick repair. This is how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists with smartphones could help highway chiefs maintain road quality by sending &#8220;crowdsourced&#8221; data from their mobiles that would allow engineers to assess when carriageway repairs are needed, according to a new UK study.<\/p>\n<p>Road roughness is an important measure of condition and ride quality, but many agencies around the world with large road networks lack the resources to regularly check the state of their highways and make informed maintenance decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Using high resolution three-axis accelerometers and GPS tracking already built into smartphones \u2013 together with a low-cost app \u2013 to record how a vehicle moves vertically in relation to the carriageway can provide a useful measure of road roughness for civil engineers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists with smartphones could help highway chiefs maintain road quality by sending &#8220;crowdsourced&#8221; data from their mobiles that would allow engineers to assess when carriageway repairs are needed, according to a new UK study. Road roughness is an important measure of condition and ride quality, but many agencies around the world with large road networks lack the resources to regularly check the state of their highways and make informed maintenance decisions. Using high resolution three-axis accelerometers and GPS tracking already built into smartphones \u2013 together with a low-cost app \u2013 to record how a vehicle moves vertically in relation to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-roads-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}