Sveplaserns användning till inventering/befästning/kontroll av vägmarkering
The thesis mission is to investigate whether the swiveling laser that Vectura (former Vägverket Konsult) has in use to measure the road areas and straddle measuring can be used to detect differences in the reflective road markings function. This is to increase use of the swiveling laser and get rid of the manual measurements performed today.Currently, the measurement of road markings reflective function is performed with both mobile and handheld measuring instruments. The purpose of this thesis is to develop better methods for determination of road markings? reflective function, in order to facilitate the description and suggestions for improvements of the maintenance of road markings reflective function.The questions that the thesis has been to start with are:Can the swiveling laser detect differences in longitudinal and transverse road markings reflective function?The accuracy of measurement has been sweeping the laser over the reference instrument (LTL-2000)Is it necessary with a conversion factor for swiveling laser data against the reference instrument data?To answer the question 2 and 3, there has been a field work in Värnamo where a road stretch with longitudinal road markings and zebra crossing (transverse road markings) has been investigated with a swiveling laser and LTL-2000.The formulas and calculations contained in the thesis are drawn from scientific reports that are produced by VTI in Linköping. The same formula that was used to calculate the optical measurement data was also used for the swiveling laser data. This can be explained by the measurement data derived by the swiveling laser data has been processed in a computer program (Matlab) that calculated gray tone image of road markings. This gray tone image was then analyzed in the image processing software ImageJ where every shade of gray represents a value of retroreflection.The results and analysis shows that the swiveling laser can detect differences in longitudinal and transverse road markings reflecting function, but the accuracy is not good and that there has emerged a need for a conversion factor for converting from the swiveling laser data to optical data.