Smartphone-sourced pavement assessment platform gets distress identification Traffic Technology Today

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) spinoff company RoadBotics has announced a ground-breaking option to complement its interactive, online pavement assessment platform, that identifies common distresses such as potholes, surface deterioration, and fatigue cracking. Spun out of CMU's Robotics Institute in 2016, RoadBotics has raised US$11.4m in venture capital investment to date to help fund its vision of applying technology to not only improve the world's roads, but also the critical infrastructure that impacts people's lives on a daily basis. RoadBotics empowers towns and cities to make objective, data-driven decisions about their roads and infrastructure by automating inspections and generating actionable information about road networks. The company's detailed maps, unbiased ratings, and practical tools save time and money for hundreds of communities across the USA and around the world. Historically, most local governments and highways agencies have manually inspected their roads for surface distresses, allowing subjective data to creep into the decision process when making plans for repairs.