Case Study: The Cross Product automates UK rail LiDAR analysis with Bentley OpenRail

The Cross Product processes UK rail LiDAR in one night with Bentley

Bentley's partner, The Cross Product (tcp), faced a classic challenge of the digital age: a data avalanche. The customer was struggling to manually process LiDAR point cloud data for the UK rail network, a task so voluminous it created a bottleneck between data collection and actionable engineering insights.

The solution was an automation plugin developed by The Cross Product for Bentley's OpenRail software, listed on the Bentley Ecosystem Catalog. This Bentley-integrated solution automated track regression and alignment from point clouds. The measurable impact was profound: processing the entire UK rail network, a task estimated to take 10 years manually, was completed by the system in a single night.

The Cross Product (tcp)