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Find the hazards before the crash, not after

A systemic audit of the whole 3D road environment that does not wait for crash history. Faster than a traditional audit, and it looks everywhere.

From RDV Systems, trusted by 24 state DOTs since 2005.

Sight distance checked on a LiDAR scan of an existing road

Ten analyses, one 3D road

Every lane, every direction and every intersection, checked the same way. Not a sample of stations a reviewer chose.

See each on a simulated corridor
  • SSD

    Stopping sight distance

    Tests at every station whether a driver can see an object in the lane in time to stop, stepping through the AASHTO speed table to the highest speed the view supports.

  • PSD

    Passing sight distance

    Compares the passing zones marked on the road with the sight distance a pass needs under AASHTO and MUTCD criteria.

  • ISD

    Intersection sight distance

    Checks each maneuver at each intersection against the AASHTO sight triangles for a vehicle waiting to turn or cross.

  • HCA

    Horizontal curves

    Measures each curve's radius and superelevation from the scan and checks them against the AASHTO Green Book, with maximum superelevation set per route.

  • FSA

    Flat spots

    Measures the longitudinal grade and cross slope of the pavement at every station.

  • GLR

    Sun glare

    Builds a year-long calendar for every station of the times the sun sits near the driver's line of sight.

  • GRW

    Guardrail warrant

    Evaluates embankment height and fill slope against the barrier warrant in the AASHTO Roadside Design Guide.

  • CS3D

    Cross-Section 3D

    Cuts 3D cross-sections through the embankments along the corridor.

  • CZ

    Clear zone

    Measures the clear zone width and side slopes, and finds the fixed objects and guardrails inside it.

  • TSA

    Traffic signs

    Detects signs in vehicle camera imagery, reads each one's MUTCD code and size, and places it with the LiDAR.

The same 3D road also answers pedestrian and cyclist sight lines and bridge vertical clearances.

Start from what you already have

No conversion project on your side. Send the files, and we prepare the 3D road data.

Existing roads

A scan of the road as it is today.

  • LiDAR point clouds
  • Reality mesh
  • Digital terrain model

Proposed designs

The design files your team already works in.

  • DGN
  • DWG
  • OpenRoads
  • InfraWorks
  • Civil 3D
  • SketchUp

Your standards, your reports

  • Your standards

    AASHTO and state DOT standards out of the box, and every parameter adjustable.

  • Every finding explained

    Each deficiency comes with the 3D view that shows why it fails.

  • Reports people can use

    Downloadable CSV, online HTML reports and Google Maps integration.

  • Your systems

    Results integrate with your own data systems.

The online stopping sight distance report: the LiDAR scan rendered from the driver's eye with map and zoom insets, beside a table of every station's visibility, obstruction, milepost, slope and maximum safe speed

Five short demos

Sight distance, a design, an existing road, the full report and the other safety checks.

Road Safety Audit 3D in the field

Aerial view of rural southwest Virginia with the study corridors highlighted in green

Every 10 feetlane and paved-shoulder widths measured from LiDAR, where manual surveys measured every several hundred feet.

VDOT Shoulder Rumble Strip Planning

Virginia Department of Transportation

Read the case study: VDOT Shoulder Rumble Strip Planning

Audit your next project in 3D

Send us a design or a scan and get a sight-distance report back, with no software to install.