Highway projects often extend over long distances and complex terrain, where conventional survey coverage can be slow, disruptive, hazardous, and costly, especially when crews need time in or near live traffic.

For existing corridors, RPM streamlines data collection using LiDAR-based Mobile Mapping to capture continuous, corridor-wide geometry, including embankments and surface features at speed. This approach reduces exposure in traffic that limits lane impacts. The result: a dense, design-ready dataset supporting grading, drainage, and tie-ins without relying on interpolations between traditional survey shots.

Where wider-area context is needed, such as interchanges, adjacent terrain, or broader drainage features, RPM can complement mobile mapping with aerial LiDAR and photogrammetry, and handheld/backpackable LiDAR to fill gaps and extend coverage beyond the roadway.

 

How RPM Supports Highway Projects:

  • Mobile LiDAR corridor mapping for continuous existing-conditions capture along live roadways
  • Contours and surface models for grading design, drainage analysis, and roadway tie-ins
  • Mapping roadside infrastructure including shoulders, ditches, guardrails, signage, linework and safety features
  • Capturing bridges, interchanges, access points, and constrained geometry along the corridor
  • Reduced field exposure by minimizing time spent on-foot in traffic environments
  • Aerial LiDAR and photogrammetry to extend coverage beyond the corridor where needed (terrain, context)
  • Design-ready deliverables compatible with CAD, GIS, and BIM workflows

Mobile Mapping

To support existing corridor
mapping across infrastructure networks, our patent-pending
mobile mapping system can rapidly capture terrain, assets, and surface conditions far faster than conventional RTK or total station methods while collecting
significantly denser spatial data.

This approach enables existing conditions and corridor features to be documented efficiently while maintaining the level of accuracy required for planning, assessment, and engineering workflows.

Underground Infrastructure

OLS

Digital Twin

Compliance Mapping

FAQ

Welcome to FAQs

Please select a frequently asked question from the menu below.

What is LiDAR?

LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) is a way of measuring and mapping the ground and infrastructure using lasers. A sensor sends out thousands of light pulses per second and measures how long they take to bounce back, building a very detailed 3D model of the real world.

What is Mobile Mapping?

Mobile mapping is a data collection method that uses vehicle-mounted LiDAR systems to capture dense, accurate, and continuous 3D data along road corridors. It records roadway surfaces and surrounding features, while traveling at normal driving speeds, producing a detailed model of existing conditions.

How does RPM collect highway corridor data more efficiently?

RPM collects highway corridor data more efficiently using its patent-pending truck-mounted mobile mapping LiDAR system, which captures continuous, corridor-wide existing conditions while driving at normal speeds. This approach eliminates the need for slow, stop-and-start conventional surveying, lane closures and the need for crews working near traffic.

What kinds of highway features can RPM map?

In a single scan RPM can map a wide variety of roadway and infrastructure features. Including but not limited to embankments / ditches, linework, guardrails and power infrastructure.

How does RPM improve on traditional survey shots?

Instead of relying on interpolations between limited survey points, RPM captures dense continuous data in one scan across the corridor, creating a more complete representation of existing conditions.

What if a project needs mapping beyond the roadway itself?

RPM can extend mapping beyond the roadway by integrating aerial LiDAR, photogrammetry, and handheld or backpack LiDAR. This allows adjacent terrain, interchanges, bridges, and other areas outside the line of sight of the mobile mapping system to be captured, ensuring complete project coverage beyond the corridor.

Adding photogrammetry to a project provides much needed visual context for planning and design.

What outputs does RPM deliver, and will they integrate with our workflows?

For highways and transportation projects, RPM delivers bare earth and full-feature point clouds (tiled to client specifications), DEMs, contours, extracted infrastructure features such as linework and embankments, and high resolution orthophotos. All outputs are structured for seamless integration into common GIS and CAD platforms. We align formats and feature requirements upfront to ensure the final deliverables fit directly into your workflows without additional conversion or rework.

Contact us for a consultation:

4 + 3 =