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In this paper the authors are discussing a community-driven system for reporting via smartphones road acceleration data, processed on-the-fly in the cloud computing system for finding possible road artefacts as well as assessing overall road quality on the driver-friendly RRUI scale. The proposed system uses smartphones mounted in a car with little...
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... Regular off-the-shelf smartphones are equipped with sensors to capture accelerometer, gyroscope, noise, light, temperature, and GPS data. This is appropriate as although smartphones have not previously been used to assess bicycle infrastructure, they have been used in automobile-based studies to monitor the quality of roads (Badurowicz, Cieplak, and Montusiewicz 2016;Badurowicz and Montusiewicz 2015;Allaire and Hanson 2017). Our approach is not dismissive of studies that use instrumented bicycles as we recognise that the use of inexpensive mobile phone technology does not replace the need for precise instruments such as calibrated transducers, particularly for purposes that require high accuracies of measurement. ...
The paper explores a user-centred methodology for collecting, categorising, visualising, and interpreting data on urban cycling infrastructure and related cycling events. It develops a mobile mixed methods approach combining audio, video, sensor, and geospatial data sources. The method responds to stakeholders’ feedback and related concerns about negotiating engineering, landscape and urban design, planning and policy elements in a way that addresses cyclists’ needs. It is tested in a pilot study that combines infrastructure monitoring and perception data collection on eight newly built Major Cycle Routes in Christchurch, New Zealand. Data from one Major Cycle Route is used to explore methods of data categorisation, visualisation and interpretation. Based on the results of the pilot study, the paper discusses potential methodological changes or additions. It suggests future research opportunities and potential applications of the proposed methodology to support stakeholders’ efforts to advance the planning, design and implementation of urban cycleways.
