Mobile Laser Scanning of Urban Roads: Cost Estimation for a High-quality Result

Abstract

Mobile laser scanning is the most comprehensive type of engineering surveys for the preparation of information models of highways with adjacent infrastructure. This article presents the author's observations based on the processing of the results of mobile laser scanning of roads of the regional center of the Russian Federation in the summer of 2021 as part of the tender for updating the CSODD (comprehensive scheme organization of road's traffics) for urban roads subordinated to the regional transport committee. The article also provides numerical formulas to use it to estimate the labor costs for conducting and processing scanning results (expressed in man-hours and rubles), which can be used to calculate the preliminary cost of public tenders for conducting and processing the results of mobile laser scanning of public roads. So, for 1000 km of urban roads, the price can range from 59.6 million to 150.1 million rubles in prices for the middle of 2023.