A review of Information Communication Technology (ICT) methods for road infrastructure monitoring

Abstract

Road infrastructure is critical to a country's economic growth because it supports other infrastructural developments. The high cost associated with building new roads has caused a shift in focus to the effective maintenance of road assets in many developed countries. This has not been the situation in many underdeveloped countries, where roads have been allowed to deteriorate and road infrastructure monitoring is still carried out manually. Due to the cost, time, subjective nature, and other biases of human inspectors, the manual approach to road infrastructure monitoring has proved insufficient. Information communication technology (ICT) monitoring methods make use of the facilities provided by ICT and its tools to provide monitoring in chosen domains. The mobility and penetration of mobile-based information and communication technology (ICT) devices make them ideal for monitoring infrastructure. In this paper, we review ICT-based road monitoring methods and provide an overview of the current community-based infrastructure monitoring approach using mobile phones.