The OnStation App

Stop hunting for the next station.Start working from it.

Open the OnStation App. Type your project code. See exactly where you are, where the work is, and where you need to be next — all on the phone in your pocket.

Add your project. Get your crew working from accurate stationing — no hardware, no training required.

Works on any phone · 5-min setup · No hardware

Used on thousands of road construction projects nationwide · 97% contract renewal rate · SOC 2® Type II Certified

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4,700+

Stationed projects

500+

Organizations using OnStation

97%

Annual contract renewal rate

SOC 2®

Type II certified security

What's in the app

Built around your location.

Every feature is tailored to work to your advantage in the field.

Most-used feature

Station Finder

Gives every person on a road construction crew an instant location. No stakes. No survey wheel. No call to the PM.

  • Live station and offset, GPS-driven
  • Alignment locking, jumping, MM/LRS conversions
  • Works on any phone — no hardware
  • Offline mode for dead zones

Hoffman Construction: 3 utility strikes avoided on a single project — knowing exactly where you are stops the digger before the line.

Station Finder showing live station 1+66 13L on W 50th St repave project — two phone views with stationing overlay on satellite map
Coordination

Flag & Chat

Drop a flag at any station. Start a conversation tied to that location. Everyone on the project — your crew, the inspector, the prime, the DOT — sees the same thread.

  • Flags pinned to station and timestamp automatically
  • Photos and notes attach to the flag, not a group text
  • Group chats by project, alignment, or crew
  • Shared with subs, inspectors, and DOT staff

State DOT: 9,077 flags dropped across 200 projects — every one tied to a station, with the right people looped in.

Flag and Chat — chat conversation tied to a station with photo of work zone attached
Documentation

Camera Notes

Every photo gets stamped with the station, alignment, date, and time — automatically. The kind of documentation that holds up in a pay-app dispute or a DOT audit.

  • Auto-tagged to station, offset, and alignment
  • Date- and time-stamped
  • Searchable in the Data Portal
  • Tag by category — rework, change order, safety

RS&H, I-4 corridor: a guardrail location dispute resolved in seconds — instead of hours of paper-pulling — using auto-stamped photos.

Camera Notes — phone screenshot showing an auto-stamped photo of damaged guardrail, with date 2/11/2025 2:34 PM, station CL_I4 1185+01 84R, and project SR400 T7493 baked into the image
QC & inspection

Forms

Custom field forms — density tests, inspection checklists, cross-slope measurements — filled out on the phone, locked to the station they were captured at. Data flows into the Data Portal and your existing tools.

  • Custom fields for any test or daily report
  • Location-locked to the station of capture
  • HCSS HeavyJob integration syncs your data automatically
  • Trimble, TransTech, FleetWatcher, GNSS integrations

Mathy Construction: $18,000 saved per density technician per season — 2 hours back on every shift, captured in-form on the phone instead of back at the office.

Forms feature showing a Cross Slope inspection form on iPhone — Construction Type dropdown, Lift section, Measurement section with toggle, Save Form Data button
Safety

Active Worksite™

One in five construction fatalities happen in highway work zones. Active Worksite shares your crew's live location with the traveling public — drivers get alerted only when approaching active personnel, not a static work zone sign.

  • Real-time alerts to drivers near active crew
  • Works on any phone the crew already carries
  • No extra hardware. No separate app.
Read more about Active Worksite™ →
Active Worksite alert showing 'Construction 125 feet away — Slow Down: Construction Workers Present' on a phone, with the OnStation app overlay and driver navigation view
A different kind of feature

Every year, 850 people are killed in U.S. highway work zones.1

Active Worksite™ tells the traveling public exactly where your crew is — live, anonymized, only when they’re within 130 feet of the centerline. Drivers see “Workers Ahead” in apps like Waze. Crews work knowing they’ve been seen.

“It’s given our crews a stronger sense of security knowing that drivers are being alerted when they’re entering an active work zone. The more drivers we can reach, the more effective these safety warnings will be.”

Mark Allegri · Ideker, Inc.

Learn about Active Worksite™ →

1 Federal Highway Administration, U.S. work zone fatalities, annual average.

Real-time alerts

Drivers see exactly where work is happening — not just project limits.

Only when crews are actually working

Breaks the “empty work zone” habit drivers have learned to ignore.

Risk reduction for executives

Documented commitment to crew safety, includable in your TTC and safety plans.

Before you ask

Quick answers to the questions every crew has.

Most teams ask the same questions when they hear about OnStation for the first time. Here’s the short version.

Do we need new hardware?

No. OnStation runs on the iPhones and iPads your crew already carries. No survey gear, no rugged tablets, no rental fees.

What about dead zones?

Offline mode catches your project the moment you open it. Crews keep working from accurate stationing even when signal drops.

Is our project data secure?

SOC 2® Type II certified. Encrypted in transit and at rest. Your data is yours — exportable anytime, with audit-ready records.

How long until our team is up to speed?

Most users are productive on day one. Setup takes 5 minutes. Onboarding takes 10. Crews don’t need a manual to find their station.

Can DOT inspectors and primes use OnStation too?

Yes. Inspectors, primes, and DOT staff can all access the same project. Everyone sees the same stationing, the same flags, the same chat threads — no version mismatch.

What kind of plans does OnStation work with?

OnStation works with alignment files (LandXML or ALG), PDF plan sets, CAD project layers (DGN, DWG, DXF), and work items in Excel or text format. Send us what your engineer or DOT provided and we’ll build the project from there.

How does OnStation pricing work?

Pricing is per-project and scales with project size. Send us the plans and we’ll put together a quote — no procurement gauntlet, no annual commitment to get started.

Get started

From plans to working crews. We handle the rest.

No long onboarding. No professional services contract. Send us what you have, we’ll do the rest.

1

Send us your project files

Whatever your engineer or DOT provided — alignment files (LandXML or ALG), PDF plan sets, CAD project layers (DGN, DWG, DXF), and work items in Excel or text format.

~5 minutes on your end

2

We build your project in OnStation

Our team digitizes your alignment, sets stationing, and configures the project for your crew. You don’t lift a finger.

Most projects ready within a few days

3

Crews download the app and get to work

Send the project code to your crew. Each person creates an OnStation account, opens the app, types the project code, and starts working from accurate stationing.

~5 minutes per person

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A real person responds within one business day.

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Real results

What changes when crews use OnStation.

Specific outcomes from contractors and inspection firms who measured what OnStation changed on their jobs. No hypotheticals.

$18,000

Saved per density technician, per year. Techs were working 16-hour days finding test locations manually. OnStation cut over 2 hours per tech, per day.

Mathy Construction · Wisconsin

36 → 6 min

Hazard documentation time per incident on the I-4 corridor. The senior CEI inspector pulled the station-anchored photo to settle a guardrail dispute on the spot.

RS&H · Tampa, FL

3 strikes

Utility strikes avoided on a single project using OnStation’s design overlays. “It takes about a minute to pull up the utilities tab and see what is around me.”

Hoffman Construction

100+ flags

Dropped with photos across a project involving 3 organizations and a DOT. Replaced paper forms, phone calls, and email chains with one shared platform.

CSD Environmental · Illinois

See it on your project. Decide from there.

Start your access period — submit your project files and we'll get you set up. Or schedule a 20-minute demo and we'll walk your team through it.