Publications / 2011 Proceedings of the 28th ISARC, Seoul, Korea

The Integration of Location-Based Service and Augmented Reality Techniques to a Road Management System

Jia-Ruey Chang
Pages 1407-1408 (2011 Proceedings of the 28th ISARC, Seoul, Korea, ISBN 978-89-954572-4-5, ISSN 2413-5844)
Abstract:

It is almost impossible for road engineers to monitor every road and to successfully and promptly maintain and rehabilitate any defects that have been identified. Therefore, the monitoring and reporting of defects in road systems contributed from the public are indispensable. Location-based service (LBS) has been applied to mobile devices with mobile positioning functions to provide users with location-specific services. Augmented reality (AR) is a technology which can support users in manipulating virtual objects in real environments, and thus can be used for road management with far less time and costs. This study developed a mobile road management system (RMS) on a mobile phone under the Android platform by integrating LBS and AR technologies using Java programming language. Both the public and road engineers are able to download the mobile RMS for free, for anytime and anywhere monitoring and reporting of in-situ defects in road systems. The reported information will be uploaded and saved in the server and then automatically updated to the mobile RMS on road engineersÂ’ mobile phones. By using LBS and AR technologies, the time and costs of maintenance activities can be significantly decreased since routes of maintenance activities can be planned in advance and the neighboring defects can be instantly identified and processed, which conforms exactly to the current policies of the "The Public Oversight of Public Works Projects" and "Smooth Roads Project" in Taiwan.

Keywords: Road Management System (RMS), Location-Based Services (LBS), Augmented Reality (AR), Maintenance Activity, Mobile Phone