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Hi, this is Miranda Thacker with your KYTC Minute.
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has a long history of using state-of-the art technology
to help build safe and efficient transportation systems.
For example, the Cabinet uses an array of technologies called "LIDAR" to accomplish
initial highway design and environmental compliance work.
Will Holmes with the Cabinet's Office of Information Technology tells us more:
LIDAR is using laser beams to bounce millions of points onto the ground and onto structures
and other things on the surface of the earth.
That gets returned and translated in a computer into an elevation model. And that detailed
description of the ground then gets used within Transportation for transportation projects.
You can get that mapping information much faster and in a much reduced cost -- so by
saving time and money, it helps the Cabinet build more projects.
Additionally there are these other benefits of increased detail of information. That lets
us use it for things like Biology, Archaeology, and other things that are part of the transportation
process we go through to build a road.
In our next segment, we'll learn more about some of those additional benefits of using
LIDAR.
This is your KYTC Minute. Visit transportation.ky.gov every Thursday for updated information.