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Using 3D Tools to Solve Infrastructure and Transportation for State DOTs (AEC Next/Spar 3D Conference)


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State Departments Of Transportation (DOTs) are critically important agencies whose work includes, but is not limited to, planning, maintaining and improving the complex infrastructure of a state’s land, air and sea-based travel systems. However, given the scale and complexity of the projects they work on, they face unique challenges that are intrinsic to the job’s nature.

Whether it’s reaching places that are somewhat risky in order to collect data and perform structural assessment or accessing terrain that is potentially unstable to map its features, DOTs professionals need to make use of tools that will provide them with the data they need, but will also be in alignment with workforce safety regulations in the field. Therefore, many DOT’s have been using different categories of technologies and 3D tools in order to perform their tasks and collect the information they need (drones, 3D modelling, etc.), but also to achieve a higher level of public engagement with the work they do.

With that in mind, today’s episode is the audio format of the AEC Next/Spar 3D Conference called How are DOT’s Using 3D Tools to Solve Infrastructure and Transportation Challenges?, moderated by Jeremiah Karpowicz and focused on some of the new technologies, as well as their use in infrastructure and transportation. The panel is made up of Sam Lytle, the founder and owner of Civil FX, Kourosh Langari, a civil engineer at the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), Jennifer Wells, a State Bridge Inspection Engineer at the Minnesota DOT, and Nick Johnson, Chief of Project Management at the Nevada DOT.

 

Resources Mentioned

How are DOT’s Using 3D Tools to Solve Infrastructure and Transportation Challenges? - Webinar on Youtube

Kourosh Langari - LinkedIn / [email protected] / California DOT

Jennifer Wells - LinkedIn / [email protected] / Minnesota DOT

Nick Johnson - LinkedIn / [email protected] / Nevada DOT

Sam Lytle - LinkedIn / [email protected] / Civil FX

Jeremiah Karpowicz - LinkedIn / [email protected]

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We Make Civil Engineering Look Good | Working to Make Transportation and other Civil Engineer Projects Better through Outreach, 3D Visualization and More!By Sam Lytle

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