Hanson’s chief roadway engineer spends a busy week with 13,000 transportation professionals in our nation’s capital By David McDonald Jr., P.E., PTOE, Ph.D. Each January, thousands of transportation professionals make a pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., to participate in the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting. It’s the world’s largest congregation of transportation professionals who are exploring the results of transportation research…

A new mapping imaging system has lightened the load for Hanson’s geospatial team. Trimble’s MX7 is a photogrammetric imaging system equipped with six 5-megapixel cameras and a built-in global positioning system (GPS), all housed in a 24-inch canister, which has been mounted to a roof rack on a Hanson vehicle. It connects to a tablet, runs off power from a…