TX-Bridge: lidar-derived bridge deck geometry and cross-sections, Texas statewide (UT CTR / TxDOT 0-7095)

Summary. Statewide database of 37,000+ bridges extracted from lidar points classified as 'bridge' by the open-source TX-Bridge workflow (UT Austin Center for Transportation Research / Center for Water and the Environment, TxDOT research project 0-7095 "Flood Assessment System for TxDOT"). Each bridge carries a deck hull polygon, a major-axis cross-section with deck and low-chord elevations, the NBI match, the NWM feature_id of the crossed stream and a rating. Per-run outputs include bridge-deck DEMs, KMZ overviews and cross-section plots.

Scenarify role. Bridges / structure removal: deck hulls tell Scenarify where to cut decks out of the DTM so water can pass, and low-chord elevations support overtopping checks. Also the natural source for deck polygons when building the 'healed' terrain. Walls and low-water crossings are not in this product (see caveats).

Access. Plain HTTPS on TACC Corral, no auth. The statewide GeoJSON is ~500 MB; filter to HUC-8 12100201 or the Kerr County bbox. The Upper Guadalupe run is run_189_HUC_12100201_collection_012_012_20230914 (KMZ 31 MB). Code: https://github.com/andycarter-pe/tx-bridge (MIT, branch hpc_run for the HPC/Docker version, image civileng127/tx-bridge). Method and attribute taxonomy: TxDOT report 0-7095-1 section 4.2 and Technical Memorandum 5B.

Format and CRS. GeoJSON (2024-04-30 release in EPSG:3857 Web Mercator; 2023-09-19 release ~497 MB); KMZ per HUC-8 run; bridge-deck DEM GeoTIFFs named by bridge UUID (tar.gz archive 723 MB); cross-section PNGs (archive 4.9 GB); bridge-only COPC LAZ point clouds per lidar collection. Elevations in metres from the source lidar (NAVD88).

Coverage. Texas, 495 HUC-8 x lidar-collection jobs; includes HUC-8 12100201 Upper Guadalupe. Lidar vintage follows the TxGIO collection used (2011-2019 for Kerr County).

Provenance and caveats. Complex interchanges are flagged bad_hull; some collections (Jack/Archer 2015, Upper Clear Fork Brazos, Houston urban core) could not be processed. Culverts shorter than 20 ft and low-water crossings are outside the NBI and outside TX-Bridge; project 0-7095 field-surveyed only 20 low-water crossings in the Austin District. Pre-dates the July 2025 flood, which destroyed or damaged several Kerr County crossings.

Related. txdot-road-elevation-model-san-antonio-district, texas-terrain-1m-dtm-kerr-kendall, usgs-3dep-1m-dem-upper-guadalupe.

Dataset extent

Data and Resources

  • TX-Bridge statewide geometry database (2024-04-30)GeoJSON

    505 MB, EPSG:3857. Bridge points/hulls with deck and low-chord elevations,...

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  • TX-Bridge statewide geometry database (2023-09-19)GeoJSON

    497 MB, 37,488 bridges; version cited in report 0-7095-1.

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  • Upper Guadalupe HUC-8 12100201 run KMZKMZ

    31 MB. Bridge points, hulls, major-axis lines and cross-sections for the...

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  • Bridge-deck DEMs (per bridge UUID)GeoTIFF (directory)

    38,000 small GeoTIFFs plus 000000_archive_gzip.tar.gz (723 MB).

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  • Cross-section plots (per bridge UUID)PNG (directory)

    46,000 PNGs plus 000000_archive_xs_gzip.tar.gz (4.9 GB).

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  • Bridge-classified point clouds by lidar collectionCOPC LAZ (directory)

    One merged bridge-only COPC per TxGIO collection (001-036).

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  • Sample run output with folder layoutDirectory

    Nine output folders described in report 0-7095-1 section 4.2.4.

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  • tx-bridge source codeGitHub

    Python, MIT. Extracts bridge geometry from USGS Entwine/COPC point clouds.

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  • TxDOT report 0-7095-1: Flood Assessment System...PDF

    16 MB. Sections 4.2 (TX-Bridge), 5.10 (low-water crossings).

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  • TxDOT bridges open data (NBI attributes)HTML

    Official inventory points for cross-reference.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Source https://github.com/andycarter-pe/tx-bridge
Version 2026-11-05
Author Andy Carter, David Maidment et al., UT Austin CTR/CWE for TxDOT RTI 0-7095
Author Email Andy Carter, David Maidment et al., UT Austin CTR/CWE for TxDOT RTI 0-7095
Maintainer William Mobley
Maintainer Email William Mobley
Temporal Coverage Start 2011-01-01
Temporal Coverage End 2024-04-30
Spatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-99.8, 29.65], [-98.05, 29.65], [-98.05, 30.35], [-99.8, 30.35], [-99.8, 29.65]]]}