Development of intelligent road maintenance system mobile apps for a highway

Nurul Husna Mohd Jamail,Nor Shahida Mohd Jamail,Abdul Halim A G

doi:10.11591/eei.v9i6.2489

Abstract

Roads are one of the main assets of a country where the network infrastructure offers economic and social benefits. It is understood that road maintenance would improve economic development and social benefits, and the poorly maintained road network would destruct mobility, raise accident rates, intensify isolation, poverty and vehicle operating costs. Unidentified road environment covers many aspects and based on that matter, it is important to improve the quality of inspection reports, whereby the efficiencies by mobile application shall be utilized. Developed system mobile apps have been found to be effective, versatile to use, as they can be used anywhere and at any time. The goal was therefore to recognize the types of defects, issues and deficiencies in current road maintenance practices and to develop a computerized highway maintenance program. The scope of the research will be limited to a case study at PLUS highway, connecting the north and south highway of peninsular Malaysia. The findings showed that road maintenance work is not adequately and effectively designed because it requires more time and includes a lot of paperwork. Due to this matter, the proposed mobile application would provide an invaluable added benefit to intelligent system of PLUS highway

Highlights

Roads are transport infrastructures which play an important role in promoting the economic development of the region [1]
The data analysis discussed is regarding the improvement of the Projek Lebuhraya Usaha Sama Berhad (PLUS) Highway Maintenance System
The PLUS mobile app is the latest PLUS mobile application created by PLUS Malaysia Berhad and aims to provide Malaysian highway users with the most reliable traffic routing, road warnings and facilities available along PLUS highways

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Introduction

Roads are transport infrastructures which play an important role in promoting the economic development of the region [1]. Citizens will benefit a lot from improving the highways. To order to preserve these benefits, the construction of the highway must be followed by a well-planned maintenance control program. Roads will fall into disrepair, preventing the longer-term effect of road construction on development as well as the social and economic growth of the country. Constructing new roads cost money, but without maintaining the existing roads properly, they deteriorate very quickly. This deterioration will very fast affect road transport in general [5]

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