Kwanalytics: A geographic information system for crowdsourcing and aggregating road surface quality information from smartphones

Abstract

Road surface quality information is critical to road users when navigating road networks, and road authorities when making decisions on road infrastructure. However, not many systems exist that readily provide this information. This work connects prior work and proposes a geographic information system for crowdsourcing and aggregating probabilistic road surface quality information collected from users’ smartphones from various times and at different geographic locations.