Pontis®
Bridge Management System Version 4.4

Pontis® is a bridge management system that assists transportation agencies in managing bridge inventories and making decisions about preservation and functional improvements for their structures. Pontis stores complete bridge inventory and inspection data, including detailed element conditions; formulates network-wide preservation and improvement policies for use in evaluating the needs of each bridge in a network; makes project recommendations to derive maximum benefit from scarce funds; reports network and project-level results; and forecasts individual bridge life-cycle deterioration and costs.

Pontis was first developed more than 10 years ago by the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). It is licensed through the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) to more than 45 U.S. state departments of transportation (DOT) and other agencies nationally and internationally.

Benefits

• Offers comprehensive support for the entire bridge asset management cycle
• Helps agencies make sound, defensible, and repeatable investment decisions for their bridges
• Encourages a preservation approach by identifying a cost-minimizing strategy for preserving the bridge network and quantifying the impact of deferring needed maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation actions
• Enables agencies to comply with National Bridge Inventory (NBI) reporting and data validation requirements
• Provides agencies with a proven, cost-effective bridge management solution

Features

Pontis supports the entire bridge asset management cycle, allowing user input at every stage of the process. Pontis advanced features include:

• Comprehensive inspection, preservation, project planning, and programming modules
• Flexible bridge data presentations, including a user-configurable bridge desktop offering a common access point to all Pontis modules
• Multimedia capability, supporting links to bridge and inspection photos and drawings
• Extensive end-user customization capabilities, including reporting, data management, and helper applets, as well as functionality for changing labels and help tags for all user interface controls
• Built-in support for the Microsoft® SQL Server®, Oracle® and Sybase® Adaptive Server Anywhere® single or multi-user databases
• BRIDGEWare® integration, providing access to a common bridge database and capabilities of the Virtis® and Opis® systems (licensed separately from AASHTO)
• Comprehensive online help, user manual, technical manual, and other support resources

How Can You Obtain Pontis?

Pontis is licensed by AASHTO to more than 45 state DOTs and other agencies nationally and internationally. To obtain an evaluation copy of Pontis, please contact the AASHTO product office at http://aashtoware.camsys.com/.

With a worldwide reputation for leadership in developing effective transportation asset management solutions, Cambridge Systematics has worked with many agencies to customize Pontis to specific needs, and to improve existing asset maintenance and capital improvement practices.

Pontis, the Pontis logo, BRIDGEWare, Virtis, and Opis are registered trademarks of AASHTO.