Smart Solution For Citizen’s Road Safety From Potholes

Abstract

In developing countries like India, the most relevant problem related to roads are indigenous potholes or
deteriorated pavements occurring naturally or due to human action. One of the major reason for these potholes are poor
construction or pavements of roads as the asphalt used to pave the roads are insufficient or are of lower quality . This
leads to pavements distress resulting in occurrence of potholes on the roads posing a risk to vehicles safety such as truck
accident or traffic disturbance. The general solution for fixing potholes depends upon reporting the pothole to the
concerned authority involved in the construction and maintenance of road. The overall procedure of identifying the
pothole and informing the authorities can be tedious and generally include a large span of time. To ease the process of
getting potholes fixed in favor of general public, there are many smart solution suggested by different authors which
comprises of pothole detection system based on image processing techniques, dedicated hardware equipment and custom
software. In this paper, we have studied and discussed different paper of authors for pothole detection and perform a
comparative study for suggesting the best available approach by highlighting the proposed method of the authors by
summarizing their work.