I'm having a similar issue placing the mining depot.
I went through my mod list and disabled mods until I found that the combination of Alien Biomes and Asphalt Roads was triggering this crash.
Mods:
Alien Biomes 5.2
Asphalt Roads 1.1.9
Base Mod 18.17
Construction Drones 0.4.8
Mining Drones 0.3.18
Total Automization 0.2.2
Transport Drones 0.2.5
Unit Control 0.2.2
Sandbox save - https://drive.google.com/open?id=1VADcYTN-BHrzISEMPgVSYPGaud_VTcim
The mod Transport Drones (0.2.5) caused a non-recoverable error.
Please report this error to the mod author.
Error while running event Transport_Drones::on_built_entity (ID 6)
Unknown tile name: transport-drone-road
stack traceback:
Transport_Drones/script/depot_common.lua:63: in function 'attempt_to_place_node'
Transport_Drones/script/depot_common.lua:93: in function 'handler'
core/lualib/event_handler.lua:44: in function <core/lualib/event_handler.lua:42>
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'set_tiles'
Transport_Drones/script/depot_common.lua:63: in function 'attempt_to_place_node'
Transport_Drones/script/depot_common.lua:93: in function 'handler'
core/lualib/event_handler.lua:44: in function <core/lualib/event_handler.lua:42>
Hope this helps!