Abstract

RoadRoid - Mapping Bucharest's Roads
Track: Transportation
Authors: Lucian Zavate, Vlad Teodor, Daniela Saizu

Driving in Bucharest these days means a lot of stress for your car due to road condition. Developing an Android application which is able to measure and log car stress during daily drives and sends those measurements to a central geodatabase for analysis and publication might be a solution to facilitate municipality understanding the road condition. The application is free for use and allows anyone to use it in his/her car and measure the stress on the car. The user is able to upload the results to central geodatabase where data is analyzed using accelerometer, gyroscope data in order to produce and publish up to date maps which depict Bucharest road condition. These result can be used by the municipality, along with indoor data to determine where roads need to be fixed or to check road quality degradation in time. The project emphasized the power of VGI in local communities.