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PBS News: How Pittsburgh is test driving tech to make your commute smarter.

September 6, 2017

Robotics experts at Carnegie Mellon University are harnessing technology to address the rush-hour traffic that plagues commuters across the country. Using artificial intelligence and existing infrastructure, their software could reshape the daily commute for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians by reducing travel times and fixing potholes.

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CMU News: CMU Technology Wins Le Monde International Smart Cities Competition.

June 02, 2017

A special smart cities edition of Le Monde features Surtrac along with CMU spinoff RoadBotics, which was named first runner-up in the competition's urban innovation category.

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ZdNet News: How the U.S. Postal Service could enable smart cities.

December 7, 2016

The USPS fleet in the field could be enabled with sensors that serve as the eyes and ears of smart cities to improve services.

"The USPS report on smart cities proposed potential pilots for monitoring pavement, bridge and water conditions. Christoph Mertz, principal project scientist at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, said smartphones and sensors could be easily equipped to fix potholes before they even start."

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Fedscoop News: USPS unveils 5 potential smart city projects.

October 06, 2016

USPS seeks to enhance its offerings with a series of digital innovations.

"USPS is collaborating with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University that have created software to detect surface cracks and potholes via a video camera mounted to the windshield. Data is uploaded to the cloud once a vehicle nears a Wi-Fi hotspot."

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Mentoring and being part of Robotics Institute Summer Scholars program.

June, 2016

Students from Robotics Institute Summer Scholars program get hands-on experience in traffic sign assessment research.

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Traffic Technology Today.com News.

March 24, 2016

New CMU system is set to cut road surveying costs with the use of ordinary, consumer digital cameras.

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CMU News: Eyes on the road.

March 11, 2016

"Pavement riddled with cracks, graffiti on stop signs, icy surfaces that need rock salt: Municipalities must respond to road infrastructure problems that are changing constantly. A smartphone could be a solution for all these issues, and more."

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Tribune News: CMU-developed app assesses road damage at lower cost than PennDOT tech.

August 16, 2015

“The city of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University are working together to employ technology to find rugged roadways for repair.”

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Keystone Crossroads: New technology could help cities inspect and maintain streets more efficiently.

August 5, 2015

“That is not only the public getting to and from work, which is very important, but it’s also bringing goods and services…freight and the like,” said American Society of Civil Engineers fellow, Brian Leshko. “It really does have a big impact on the economy of a city.”

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Tribune Review Article highlighted the Mayor’s interest in this specific project.

April 8, 2014

“Pittsburgh is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University to develop a system for prioritizing repairs, the mayor said. Vehicle-mounted cameras would record street conditions that a computer would evaluate. Peduto hopes to implement it this year.”

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             Publications


City-Wide Road Distress Monitoring with Smartphones

Christoph Mertz, Srivatsan Varadharajan, Sobhagya Jose, Karan Sharma, Lars Wander, and Jina Wang
Proceedings of ITS World Congress, October, 2014.
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Vision for Road Inspection

Srivatsan Varadharajan, Sobhagya Jose, Karan Sharma, Lars Wander, and Christoph Mertz
Proceedings of WACV 2014: IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision , March, 2014.
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Continuous Road Damage Detection Using Regular Service Vehicles

Christoph Mertz
Proceedings of the ITS World Congress, October, 2011.
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