Paper Info
Title
Towards comfortable cycling: A practical approach to monitor the conditions in cycling paths
Abstract
This is a no brainer. Using bicycles to commute is the most sustainable form of transport, is the least expensive to use and are pollution-free. Towns and cities have to be made bicycle-friendly to encourage their wide usage. Therefore, cycling paths should be more convenient, comfortable, and safe to ride. This paper investigates a smartphone application, which passively monitors the road conditions during cyclists ride. To overcome the problems of monitoring roads, we present novel algorithms that sense the rough cycling paths and locate road bumps. Each event is detected in real time to improve the user friendliness of the application. Cyclists may keep their smartphones at any random orientation and placement. Moreover, different smartphones sense the same incident dissimilarly and hence report discrepant sensor values. We further address the aforementioned difficulties that limit such crowd-sourcing application. We evaluate our sensing application on cycling paths in Singapore, and show that it can successfully detect such bad road conditions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/WF-IoT.2018.8355173
2018 IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
road bumps,sensing application,bad road conditions,bicycle,smartphone application,rough cycling paths,road monitoring,comfortable cycling,user friendliness,random orientation,random placement
Conference
abs/1712.05545
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-9945-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nipun Wijerathne1141.75
Sanjana Kadaba Viswanath2242.98
Marakkalage Sumudu Hasala3232.69
Victoria Beltran4376.54
Chau Yuen54493263.28
Hock Beng Lim636128.84