What is GoodRoads

Automated monitoring and diagnostics ofroad surface conditionusing mobile devices

More and more drivers use mobile maps and GPS while in trip, those maps show traffic info or roads under repair

None of those services provides road surface condition info.

Background

Background

—  In some countries, for example Russia, 60% of roads

don’t conform with norms

—  Statistics says, one of ten road accidents, have rise in

bad roads

—  In some cases the road services simply don’t know about

new pothole, or make believe they don’t know

Drivers should be informed about road surface condition

Idea

Mobile services for drivers

The app

GoodRoads.ru

User motivation

What do road authorities use

Photo or lazer monitoringSpecial high-cost auto laboratories.

Expert opinionSpecialists themselves perambulate the roads.

Mobile appsBoston Road services were developing software

for mobile devices to recognize the potholes on the road Google Russia tried to do that also

GoodRoads in comparison with other methods

Business Model

Monetization

Gaining the number of users and increasing project plough-back

Providing data to road authorities, in Russia (Ministry of Transport), or in Finland (destia.fi)

(to save money and completely cover road surface monitoring )

Providing data to navigation systems

Using as an geo-targeted advertising space

TechnologiesGPS

User positioning on the mapLocating potholes on the map

AccelerometerDefining potholes and defects on the road

Maps (Google, Yandex, Open Street Maps)Visualization of user positionVisualization of road surface condition

Web interfaceRoad condition review through the web

DatabaseStoring road surface condition dataStoring user profile data

DataminingData analysis.

Datamining

Current State

More than 4000 active users

Data from 200 cities all over the world

Pothole recognition accuracy confirmed by our users and some

road authorities

The PeacockTeamQD business incubator residents

Egor IvanovSergey Khavrenko

Vlad Efremov

Vitaly Ivanov

Mike VakulenkoPavel Ershov Elena Alekseenko

Ivan Ushkevich

Ruslan Kreymer

Artem Bankin

And more…

Honors listFirst Prize All-Russia Innovation Project Competition

MGU Lomonosova

Participation Google Summer of Code Google

Second Prize International competition ITfon Saint-Petersburg Goverment

First Prize Opera Start Up Awards Opera

Participation Slush 2011 Aaltoes

Grand prix Start Up Tour Federal Agency for Youth Affairs

Participation IConvention 2011 Opera

Finals WebReady 2011 Ingria

Thank you for your attention!

Info

Our Goal

Delightful driving

The interestMay 2011Publishing house “The Fifth Wheel”July 2011Google RussiaAugust 2011RosYama (noncommercial organization)September 2011Dead Russian Roads (noncommercial organization) October 2011YandexOctober 2011Technologies of Mobile Cartography, ITphoneNovember 2011Start Up Chile, WebReadyJuly 2012Eurasia forumSeptember 2012Saint-Petersburg Government (Frunzensky District)