| Abstract: | Real-time images of road conditions help transportation operations managers, snowplow operators, and the traveling public make well-informed decisions during snowstorms. The data can be collected through snapshots of road conditions by a mounted camera on transportation agencies' snowplows. The objective of this project is to develop an iOS application installed on tablets to collect geotagged images of road conditions. The custom application was designed to collect and transfer geotagged images of road conditions at predetermined time intervals (i.e., 10 minutes) when a snowplow is operating at a speed of 5 mph or more. The custom iOS application was developed in Swift. To create the application, the team used different application programming interfaces, Swift classes, and methods to execute various tasks, such as retrieving the vehicle speed, capturing the images, determining the vehicle location, constructing metadata, and uploading the data to cloud space. |