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Roadroid References
Contents page
The Roadroid system 1
Reference projects 2-6
About us 7
International Research Cooperation 8
Note: This is not a user guide. Us the essential
guide, to learn how to operate the system.
The Roadroid system
Roadroid is a system to monitor road
conditions by the use of a smartphones.
Its consists of:
1) one app to measure roughness/IRI by the
vibrations from the road with the
smartphone’s built in accelerometer.
2) Another app to make road inventorys,
collecting rutting, raveling, drainage etc
and basic iRAP parameters along the road
3) an internet service to monitor the road
condition data and transfer it to road
maintenance management systems.
1) Roughness/IRI collection app
The application analyzes road vibrations ~100
times per second.
Roughness is saved in an estimated and a
calculated IRI (International Roughness Index)
every second with GPS-coordinates.
Data is stored on the phone, and after a survey
when you can connect to 3G or WiFi you
transfer it to a cloud server.
2) Road inventory app
This app makes your visual road inventory’s
much faster, more detailed and instantly
visualized.
You shorten you time on the road, get instant
access to the data with a powerful visualization
on maps. The operator have 5 different
parameters to log simultaneously and a table of
over 100 parameters to choose from.
3) The internet service
After the data has been transferred to the
cloud service it can be monitored on a map.
The data is assigned colors depending on the
road condition. From green for good to Black
for Poor.
You can extract data in preferred segments
(100 meter default) and import them to your
assets management system or HDM4.

Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea is the east part of the
Papuan island, catherrized with some
populated costal areas and between them
dense djungled mountains.
One condidered advantage was the portability,
as the areas with road are separated, and you
need to by airplane between them.
As a first part of an evaluation, they carried
out surveys on different type of roads in
different areas, and evaluated the results
compared to data collected with a Bump-
Integrator.
They also combined their first surveys with a
GPS HD-video camera.
Some of their first findings were:
 Roadroid and GPS camera are easy to
setup and operate
 Very good stability and robustness
 Extreme compactness of equipment
 User friendly and direct access of data
 eIRI is giving a good indication of
roughness (IQL3)
 Using the cIRI senstivity constant makes
possible to tune setup for different
vehicles to reach better accuracy.
Except from the Roadroid roughness unit, they
have also adapted the Road inventory
application with great result.
In the first round they collected Drainage and
Average Pavement condition in 5 levels from
Very Good – Poor, and imported these data into
HDM4 in 100 meters segments - which all went
well. The road inventory app saved time,
increased quality and gave an instant
visualization of collected data.
References:
Mr. Petri Jusi FinnOC Managin Director Email:
petri.jusi@finnoc.fi / Phone: +358 40 516 7332
Link name Province Length, km Road type
Laloki Bridge –
Port Moresby
National Capital
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7.5 Paved
Togoba jct – Mt.
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10* Paved
Alotau – East
Cape
Milne Bay (3) 56 Unpaved
Alotau – Gadaisu
village
121* Mixed
Port Moresby –
Kerema
Central, Gulf (4) 297* 200 km Paved
100 km Unpaved
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Madang (5) 230 Unpaved
Beon – CIS road 6 Mixed
Nubia – Base
Camp
20** Earth road
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Road inventory PNG 2014-11-26
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New Zeeland – Fulton Hogan
Neil Bennet at Fulton Hogan is a true early
adopter, and after an evaluation period they
are rolling out 10 systems over New Zeeland.
The result demonstrates that the device had
good alignment with NZTA High Speed Data
(HSD). The results from the truck highlight
locations where the road ‘feels’ particularly
rough to heavy vehicle operators, from this we
could assess the benefits of peak roughness
treatments from a key road users perspective.
The evaluation aslo contained a comparison
with ARRB:s roughometer 3:
Neils and Fulton Hogans main target was
unpaved roads, and also to track what happen
in altitude chages where they plotted altitude
to highlight roughness on the steep pinch out of
the bottom of a valley.
Typically where corrugations occur due to
wheel spin on front wheel drive cars:
They also evaluated roads treated with
limerock blend (left side of black line)
after routine grading
The roads on New Zeeland is part by part
getting surveyed and they are also using the
GPS-camera function to easily capture the
current situation.
Roadroid is looking forward to meet Neil in the
near future. We find it amazingly easy to set up
a business straight over the planet.
Its easy when you find persons like Neil, or
more correct – when they find you!
To find early adopters and early vangelist is
important for innovators. Its basically very
important for all road users.
“-the people who are crazy enough to
think they can change the world are the
ones who do. – Steve Jobs”
Reference:
Mr. Neil Bennett, Road Asset Manager
Email: neil.bennett@fultonhogan.com
Phone: +64 27 482 1268
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- improvement on untreated was after routine grading

Sweden
Trafikverket/Motormannen
In 2014 Roadroid ran a Research and Innovation
project on behalf of the Swedish Transport
Administration (Trafikverket).
Questions to be answered was:
1) Whats the reliability of the data?
2) How can data be collected? and
3) What decision can you make form the data?
The project was carried out in cooperation with
Motormännen (M), a Swedish Motorist club with
some +110.000 members. Motormännen used
Roadroid in their inspection routes organized in
17 districts of Sweden.
12 brand new Volvo V40 D2 cars surveyed some
92.000 km of road.
To find out about the reliability/accuracy the
results was compared with data from the
national road surveys with the IQL-1 survey
vehicles partially covering the road network.
Two reports is published: a) One for the project
giving answer to the three questions above, and
b)one from the motorist club to express the
condition of the Swedish roads. Below is a
summary from the project report (you will find
it on our website/slideshare in 2015):
What the accuracy?
Depending on the speed and type of road, the
correlation coefficient (R2) for Roadroid-data
in comparison with IQL1 vary between 0.56-
0.88. For 100-meter sections at speeds above
80 km/h it is possible to reach a correlations of
0.72-0.77.
The study showed that under certain conditions
it is possible to measure down to 20-meter
section. The IQL1 surveys tend to have a more
dynamic range, with higher values on poor
roads o lower values on good roads.
The qualitative correlation of what the drivers
considered the accuracy to be by subjective
means, reached 9 on a 10-point scale, where 10
was perfect!
How to collect data?
A first step should be a combined selection of
road owner representatives and autonomous
logistic services. The goal of the first step
should be trust for the technology, and to
clearly describe technical requirements on
integration/development to meet the needs.
A second step could be the contractor’s patrols
and a nation-wide newspaper service. Except
from maintenance issues, data can be
transferred to road users via Datex2 to
navigators and other channels.
What decisions?
What type of decisions and actions can to take
depends on the quality of the data and how
often it’s collected.
There are true benefits in both traffic
information and pavement maintenance, with
most direct earnings is in the latter, not only
for pavement planning – but also for winter
roads and gravel roads.
The collected data was also published on
Motormännen’s website:
https://www.motormannen.se/klubbar/inspekt
erade-vagar/
References:
Kent Olsson, Research/Innov.Portfolio manager
Email: kent.olsson@trafikverket.se
Phone: +46-771-921 921
Erik Kjellin, Traffic safety responsible
Email: erik.kjellin@motormannen.se
Phone: +46-8-690 38 00

Myanmar Sweroad/MOC/ADB
Myanmar Ministry of Construction (MOC) use 5
Roadroid units to collect roughness data about
their entire road network.
The Roadroid training was held as a 1-day
introduction for ~25 operators and managers,
and a 3-day hands-on training for 15 operators.
The training focused on the roughness data
collection, but also had brief introductions to
GPS-video data collection and a road inventory
application for smartphones.
The MOC roads vary from 2 lanes concrete
roads, paved roads with different widths and
down to flexible pavement DBST. There are
also some gravel roads in the network.
Except from roughness values, the spatial data
collected can be used to build a road database.
For trimming and learning the adjustable
constant for cIRI (calculated IRI), a test was
made with 2 different cars and 4 units. Two
units were mounted on left/right side of the
cars to see how the cIRI constant changed.
During the training we agreed on suitable
speeds depending on road type (ranging from
concrete expressway to DBST and gravel road).
The training was done in cooperation with
Sweroad and the local consultant Myanmar
international consultants (MMiC), with funding
from ADB (Asian Development Bank).
Contact references:
jonas.hermanson@trafikverket.se
http://mmicltd.com/
Cherry Lin: cherrylinsky@gmail.com

Afghanistan UNOPS/PWD
In Afghanistan, Northern region, UNOPS runs a
road project funded by SIDA. The project’s
focus is gravel roads in the four provinces of
Balkh, Sari Pul, Samangan and Jawzjan. Local
partner is Public Works Department (PWD).
Roadroid was tested and evaluated during 2013
and then procured in late 2013.
An onsite training held in June 2014 included a
3-day planning followed by a 6-day training for
15 road engineers.
The training was performed in coordination
with a project team from UNOPS (SIDA/RAIP
III/NTH/RMMS - Project No. 00084840).
A local project team from UNOPS coordinated
the training, which was performed by a Swedish
Road Engineer and Roadroid expert.
The training focused on the roughness data
collection but included also GPS-video data
collection and an introduction to our road
inventory application for smartphones.
Training also included a workshop of future
needs: Road Weather Information Systems,
Traffic Counting and Traffic Management.
A great challenge was the rough gravel roads,
and the extreme type of damages.
• An extreme surface roughness is caused by
the use of natural material, round stones
mixed with sand. The sand gradually blows or
wash away and the big round stones remain.
• “Potholes” sometimes was bathtub size,
needing creeping speed to pass. Its was not
possible to classify that in terms of IRI.
We have functional requirements to register
these type of damages, and the discussions
progressed the thinking and possible solutions.
References:
Mr. Shekhar Kumar SHRESTHA
Road Construction and Maintenance Specialist AFOH
| RAIP | Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan
Email: shekharK@unops.org / Mobile: +93 792277709
Mr. Bengt Ekman (bengt.ekman@sida.se

Sweden
The City of Upplands Väsby
Roadroid have several Swedish cities as clients,
and one early adopter with active users is the
city of Upplands Väsby, north of Stockholm.
The city is growing and has several industrial
projects ongoing that they want to monitor
With Roadroid the city´s personnel can do the
surveys by themselves. For the entire street
network – and for the bike paths as well!
It is not a coincident that the City of Upplands
Vasby has been awarded as the most developed
IT-city of Sweden, and they have been an
excellent early adopter of our new technology.
As they now manage to do the survey by their
own staff, Upplands Väsby can reduce the cost
for expensive surveys made by consultants =
more money for the actual pavement work!
Roadroid produces automated road condition
reports from the street register, and Upplands
Väsby have used the data in dialogues with
their contractors also on detailed object level.
As they run a continuous license, they are able
to effectively monitor the change of the
pavement condition from year to year – and
even between different seasons.
References:
Kristofer Kvarnström
Responsible for Streets maintenance
kristofer.kvarnstrom@upplandsvasby.se
Jörgen Wihlner
Manager Civil Works department
jorgen.wihlner@upplandsvasby.se
Phone: +46-8-590 970 00
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Sweden
Bike paths in the City of Lund
The city of Lund is maybe most recognized for
its famous University.
A famouns university, means a lot of students.
And a lot of students means a lot of bicykles.
So Lund is a biking city, with high utlilization
and demands on the bike paths.
The municipality made a survey using Roadroid
and got input to keep the bike paths of Lund in
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- And more cities are following this good idea,
such as Gavle, Uppsala, Pitea, Skelleftea and
Upplands Vasby!
References:
Anders Söderberg (anders.soderberg@lund.se)
Magnus Jönsson (magnus.jonsson2@lund.se)
Phone: +46-46-35 50 00
David Eldrot (david.eldrot@gavle.se)
Phone: +46-26-17 84 40

Roadroid – the story. So far.
Our first sketch was made in 2001 and the
prototype saw the first light in 2002. At that
time smartphones were not yet invented, so we
used a PC with an external accelerometer, a
signal amplifier and a GPS unit.
The PC-based system was developed 2002-2006.
While PC, cables and accelerometers were not
safisfactory, our team learnt a lot about how
vibrations can express a roads condition.
Our team shattered into other projects, but in
2010 we realized that modern smartphones now
also included an accelerometer!
So the team gathered again:
- Lars: Road engineer, process and project
manager. Burning force, convinced that now
was the time to make old ideas to reality.
- Hans: Computer engineer and real time
programming expert – now teaching at a
university with an edge on Smartphones.
- Tommy: Computer engineer and now a road
database expert and consultant – in the core
of the Swedish Traffic Management Systems.
And we had another 5+ professional years with
ITS and mobile location based systems…
When realizing there were accelerometers in
the smartphones, we had ideas of how to use
them! We knew answers to many questions, but
there were also new things to solve, such as:
- Could we use the vibrations inside the car?
- How to handle different car models?
- Would 100Hz sampling frequency be enough.
- Was the accelerometer sensitive enough?
- How would different smartphone models act?
During the summer 2011 Hans and Lars made
extensive field tests combining old experience
with new technology. With the first data now in
the app, we needed to refine it and make it
avaliable over the web.
So in the autumn 2011, Tommy started working
on a first webspace. At this time, we used
Android Road Quality (ARQ) as name for the
app and Qtex for the website.
During 2012, early adopter cities started using
the system, we were the regional winner of the
Europeean Satelite Navigation Competition,
and we started international pilots.
In 2013 we got licenced clients in Sweden and
won the UN World Summit Award for best
mobile eGovernance application.
And now in 2014, Roadroid is starting to catch
on in a big way. We are doing international
business, still in a small scale but with good
results and happy clients. We are extra proud
to have clients as the United Nations, and to
realize that we create great value out there.
For low volume roads, Roadroid is an
accessible, easy-to-use, cost-efficient,
objective and extremely portable solution.
On high standard roads, Roadroid’s ability to
automate surveys gives possibilties for early
warnings and to monitor roughness changes
over time. This opens new perspetives to asset
management and performance based
maintenance.
We cooperate with globally known experts and
universities, and start pilots on a broad scale.

Global sponsor of universities
Roadroid company believes in the benefits of
cooperating with academia.
Our original prototype 2002 saw its first light
through a Master Thesis made by two students
of the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology.
We sponsor universities all over the globe with
free access to our system, and we participate
as guest lecturers whenever we can.
In return, we want to follow the result of their
research.
Roadroid is used both in research and training
of road engineers.
In February 2013 the Universities of Auckland,
New Zeeland and Pretoria, South Africa
contacted us. And in a few weeks they both
started up research projects with our support
by distance.
During the year, both universities produced
valuable reserach reports for our development.
We got encouraged by them expressing the
performance we knew about - but also
challenged with the limitations discovered.
Their constructive fedback has further tuned
our algorithms and proceeded our
development.
Today we also develop co-operation with
Universities in countries as Sweden, Turkey,
Afghanistan, Laos, Peru, Indonesia and US!
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima
Balkh University, Mazar-E-Sharif, Afghnistan
It may sometimes be a long process to get
results, but these cooperations offer access to
state-of-the-art knowledge and competence we
could never have in our start-up company.
And by coopereting with several institutions,
some of them always have something to come
up with. To build sustainable development, it is
good to not be in too much of a hurry!
National University of Laos, Vientiane
Antalya University, Turkey
References:
Prof Wynand JvdM Steyn, Department of Civil
Engineering Cell: +27 82 219 9704, E-mail:
wynand.steyn@up.ac.za
Dr. Theuns.F.P Henning, Department of Civil
and Environmental Eng. Cell: +64 275 788662,
E-mail: t.henning@auckland.ac.nz

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