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Transportation Surveying

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Surveying Manager

Tommy Young

Phone: (731) 644-1014
Fax: (731) 644-0109

tyoung@lismith.com

 

During the past years, L. I. Smith & Associates has had extensive experience in the transportation industry, being responsible for over $1 billion in highway projects relating to over 450 miles of roads and bridges.

The L.I. Smith’s transportation division is comprised of a team of selected surveyors that specialize and have extensive experience in road and highway projects. Our registered surveyors are licensed in seven states including Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. Our many clients regularly rely upon our commitment to quality surveying and dependable performance. These clients include contractors, developers, engineers, commercial business planners, plus various government agencies such as municipalities, counties, and the Department of Transportation.

Recent Transportation Surveying Projects

Emory Road
Knox, Tennessee
Client: Tennessee Department of Transportation

L.I. Smith's transportation division provided surveying services for the widening and straightening of Emory Road for the Department of Transportation as subcontractor to Highways, Inc.

SR218 Bypass
Henry County, Tennessee
Client: Tennessee Department of Transportation

This two-lane roadway and bridge construction project consisted of new construction with highway staking on the SR 218 Bypass for the Department of Transportation and Vaughn Contractors.

SR 76 and US 79
Henry County, Tennessee
Client: Tennessee Department of Transportation

This project was a four-lane widening. Construction lines and grades were established for this 6-mile section of SR 76 and US79 from McKenzie to Routen for the Tennessee Department of Transportation and Vaughn Contracting/Hubbs Construction team. The plan data was checked for errors on centerline control and the vertical datum was checked for any errors. We set slope stakes, blue tops, dirt grades and point offsets to control drainage structures. Controls were set for bridge footings, column and pier alignments and grade, profiled beams for finish deck grade and overhang, and parapet wall lines. We also set control for the establishment of right-of-way.

SR 20
Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee
Client: Tennessee Department of Transportation

LIS&A was contracted with Tennessee Department of Transportation do a route survey for the improvement of US Hwy 412 (SR 20, Hollywood Drive) in Jackson, Tennessee. The survey consisted of all property owners and property lines with the written notification that we surveying their property, and the location of all utilities and easements. The project was tied to GPS points set to state plane coordinate system. LIS&A was furnished the aerial photography from the state and GIS maps from the City of Jackson. These maps were set to the same coordinated system and used with the field surveys as layers to help locate and coordinated the utilities.

SR 22
Henderson County, Tennessee
Client: Tennessee Department of Transportation

SR 22: Four-lane Improvement for the Tennessee Department of Transportation and J.S. Haren Company. L.I. Smith provided the survey control for lines and grades for the construction of the four-lane project with turning lanes and curb and gutter.

SR 45 and I-40
Madison County
, Tennessee
Client: Tennessee Department of Transportation

This project was performed for the Tennessee Department of Transportation and Hubbs Contractors. It consisted of a five-lane intersection improvement in Jackson, Tennessee and was 1.9 miles.

US Highway 51
Madison, Mississippi
Client: State of Mississippi; APAC MISS General Contractor
This project is a 6 mile section of US Hwy 51 in Madison County, Mississippi. The project consisted of phasing operations to build the improvement under traffic. The majority of the project was a four-lane with turning lanes, curb and gutter, and storm drains.

US Highway 412
Paragould, Arkansas
Client: State of Arkansas; McGeorge Contracting Co. General Contractor
This is a 3 mile improvement of US 412 in Greene County, Arkansas. The project is a realignment and widening of an existing two-lane highway with a 6-phase construction process. The project was tied to state plane coordinates and LIS&A used GPS to control points as the phasing operations were being performed.

SR 60
Bradley County, Tennessee
Client: Tennessee Department of Transportation
LIS&A was responsible for the route survey for a 4-mile section of SR 60 in Bradley County, Tennessee. The project consisted of defining the property owners and property lines along the improved route, topography surveys of obscured areas, inverts, size, and type of all drainage structures, the location of all water and gas valves, location, size and inverts of sanitary sewer manholes, the location of all overhead utilities and the elevation of the lowest wire, the location, size, type of driveways and culverts, the stream and flood plain cross-sections for hydraulic studies, verification of the location of all structures near the proposed right-of-way and the staking of the proposed right-of-way to show the area of taking for the new road.

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