Roads & Bridges
Turn Data Into Insights
Connect the physical and virtual world to better plan, design, construct and operate road networks.
FEATURED SOLUTIONS
Modernize bridge management using digital twins for faster, secure data creation, real-time insights, and streamlined collaboration.
Explore Bridge Solutions ❯
Simplify road and bridge design with discipline-specific solutions that optimize insights to mitigate risk, rework, and cost overruns.
Improve construction project planning with 4D digital workflows, using data-driven models to streamline processes and ensure efficient, safer road and bridge projects.
Accelerate Planning To Operations
Digital delivery benefits your road or bridge project from planning, design, construction, and operations. Make better decisions, gain insights, increase collaboration, improve asset performance, and achieve better business outcomes.
Accelerate Planning Through Construction
Digital delivery improves design efficiency with a complete representation of the design intent. Optimize collaboration and coordination with your stakeholders and citizens, assess and understand existing conditions, and understand the financial impact.
Advance Construction Management
Easily plan and manage your people, materials, and equipment. Visualize live construction information to track project performance and make data-driven decisions. Enable first-time-right construction, manage project schedule vs performance and reduce on-site visits.
Rehabilitate & Preserve Aging Infrastructure
Take on the huge task of rehabilitating or repairing roads and bridges. It’s time to adopt innovative digital twin technology to make inspections faster, easier, and safer. Ensure regulatory compliance, lower operational costs, and reduce asset downtime.
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Road and Bridge Planning
Digital delivery technology will help you communicate project plans to stakeholders and citizens in a comprehensive and visually compelling way to enable faster buy-in on projects. Manage and mitigate your project risk, optimize collaboration and coordination, assess existing conditions and understand financial impact.
Automatically Create Digital Context for Digital Twins
Use photographs and/or point clouds to cost-effectively produce 3D models of the most challenging existing site conditions for your road or bridge project.
Image courtesy of PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Manage, Extract, and Share 3D Mapping Data
You can share vast amounts of imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data to improve collaboration and get the best performance from reality modeling and digital twins.
Image courtesy of WGI
Develop Predictive Simulation Models
Know the impact before implementation and make better decisions the first time. You can collaborate with other departments to identify and correct errors early in the planning process.
Planning Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
Conceptual road & network design
Create conceptual designs to evaluate more options during the planning and pre-bid stage of your project in hours. Design more efficiently, identify high-risk items, and minimize costs.
Survey & reality Modeling
Quickly generate detailed 3D reality meshes using simple photographs or point clouds for use in your projects. Optimize and manage imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data from a variety of sources.
- Design
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Road and Bridge Design
Streamline design and collaboration, ensure effective project delivery, and enable informed decision-making. Enhance designs, improve productivity, avoid time and cost delays and overruns, and reduce project time to delivery.
Image courtesy of Italferr
Modeling, Design, and Analysis
Connect with your team through an open environment that supports modeling, design, and analysis of road networks and bridges from conceptual design to detailed design. You can simulate design options, evaluate project impact, and reduce risk, project costs, and delays.
Image courtesy of Foth
Multidiscipline Design
Advance the efficiency of your multidiscipline teams for the design and engineering of roads, bridges, drainage, and other civil infrastructure aboveground and belowground. Increase adherence to standards through design, maintenance, and retrofit of capital projects. Seamlessly integrate your supply chain with your in-house team and work as one.
Image courtesy of PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Digital Delivery
Improve your design quality and enable contractors to benefit from a more complete representation of the design. Make it easier to review the design intent with high‐resolution 3D design visuals. Reduce project cost over‐runs and test what-if scenarios to refine constructability and optimize project cost.
Design Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
Road Design & Analysis
Provide a comprehensive and fully functional detailed design application for surveying, drainage, subsurface utilities, and roadway design. Create accurate, georeferenced 3D designs with real-world context.
Bridge Design & Analysis
Fully integrated modeling, analysis, and design applications produce deliverables derived directly from the models. Speed up design time and improve efficiency in a collaborative 3D design environment.
Drainage Design & Analysis
Reduce highway design time with a complete toolset for survey, drainage, and utilities. Create models from 2D artifacts and external data to BIM models and plans production.
- Construction
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Road and Bridge Construction
Leverage a collaborative environment that allows your in-house team to work with your supply chain partners as one integrated team. Manage your multidiscipline design and construction work, in the office and in the field. Manage your contracts and your deliverables. Ensure the integrity of your data and make every project your best project.
Improve Construction Planning
Resolve roadway construction issues before they cost you time and money in the field. Manage project schedule vs. performance, reduce on-site visits, and monitor and track progress.
Image courtesy of WSB
Enable Collaboration for Better Results
Advance coordination with supply chain and stakeholders to reduce the risk of delays. Improve safety and enable first-time-right construction. Close communication gaps between the field and office with shared access to site reports, issues, and safety observations to speed decisions.
Image courtesy of New York State DOT
Manage Construction in One Place
Plan and manage your people, materials, and equipment more easily and affordably. Visualize live construction information in 2D, 3D, and 4D so that you can better track project performance and make better, faster, data-driven decisions.
Construction Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
4D/5D Planning & Simulation
Turn design models into construction models with model-based scheduling and construction simulations. The immersive 4D environment helps to reduce project risks and delays and avoid costly rework.
Construction Project Management
Access and capture data in context including project updates, inspections and RFIs. Create custom forms, flag issues and view model progress – directly from the field.
Construction Field & Performance Management
Drive project performance with real-time field progress, cost data, project reports, and insights. Make better and quicker decisions that minimize project errors and maximize team productivity.
- Operations
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Road and Bridge Operations
Improve asset and network performance to deliver safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective service.
Image courtesy of Collins Engineers
Make Bridge Inspections Faster, Easier, and Safer
Quickly capture, analyze, and manage data in the field or from the office, helping you improve the decisions made while meeting regulatory reporting requirements and ensuring safe and reliable infrastructure assets.
Manage Complex Linear Road Network Information
Drive data consistency, optimize resources and reduce costs. Use data to improve decision-making and streamline operations. Ensure timely and accurate highway performance monitoring system submissions.
Analyze Oversize/Overweight Vehicles in Real-time
Ensure safe travel of permitted vehicles using routes validated against restrictions and live bridge ratings. Improve reliability and accuracy of routing information and comply with transportation rules and regulations.
Operations Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
BRIDGE MONITORING AND INSPECTION
Enables rapid capture, analysis, and management of bridge data in the field or from the office, to improve decisions and ensure safe and reliable infrastructure assets.
Linear Road Network Management
Manage complex transportation networks with a single source of truth for asset information across your road network.
Road and Bridge Planning
Digital delivery technology will help you communicate project plans to stakeholders and citizens in a comprehensive and visually compelling way to enable faster buy-in on projects. Manage and mitigate your project risk, optimize collaboration and coordination, assess existing conditions and understand financial impact.
Automatically Create Digital Context for Digital Twins
Use photographs and/or point clouds to cost-effectively produce 3D models of the most challenging existing site conditions for your road or bridge project.
Image courtesy of PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Manage, Extract, and Share 3D Mapping Data
You can share vast amounts of imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data to improve collaboration and get the best performance from reality modeling and digital twins.
Image courtesy of WGI
Develop Predictive Simulation Models
Know the impact before implementation and make better decisions the first time. You can collaborate with other departments to identify and correct errors early in the planning process.
Planning Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
Conceptual road & network design
Create conceptual designs to evaluate more options during the planning and pre-bid stage of your project in hours. Design more efficiently, identify high-risk items, and minimize costs.
Survey & reality Modeling
Quickly generate detailed 3D reality meshes using simple photographs or point clouds for use in your projects. Optimize and manage imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data from a variety of sources.
Road and Bridge Design
Streamline design and collaboration, ensure effective project delivery, and enable informed decision-making. Enhance designs, improve productivity, avoid time and cost delays and overruns, and reduce project time to delivery.
Image courtesy of Italferr
Modeling, Design, and Analysis
Connect with your team through an open environment that supports modeling, design, and analysis of road networks and bridges from conceptual design to detailed design. You can simulate design options, evaluate project impact, and reduce risk, project costs, and delays.
Image courtesy of Foth
Multidiscipline Design
Advance the efficiency of your multidiscipline teams for the design and engineering of roads, bridges, drainage, and other civil infrastructure aboveground and belowground. Increase adherence to standards through design, maintenance, and retrofit of capital projects. Seamlessly integrate your supply chain with your in-house team and work as one.
Image courtesy of PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Digital Delivery
Improve your design quality and enable contractors to benefit from a more complete representation of the design. Make it easier to review the design intent with high‐resolution 3D design visuals. Reduce project cost over‐runs and test what-if scenarios to refine constructability and optimize project cost.
Design Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
Road Design & Analysis
Provide a comprehensive and fully functional detailed design application for surveying, drainage, subsurface utilities, and roadway design. Create accurate, georeferenced 3D designs with real-world context.
Bridge Design & Analysis
Fully integrated modeling, analysis, and design applications produce deliverables derived directly from the models. Speed up design time and improve efficiency in a collaborative 3D design environment.
Drainage Design & Analysis
Reduce highway design time with a complete toolset for survey, drainage, and utilities. Create models from 2D artifacts and external data to BIM models and plans production.
Road and Bridge Construction
Leverage a collaborative environment that allows your in-house team to work with your supply chain partners as one integrated team. Manage your multidiscipline design and construction work, in the office and in the field. Manage your contracts and your deliverables. Ensure the integrity of your data and make every project your best project.
Improve Construction Planning
Resolve roadway construction issues before they cost you time and money in the field. Manage project schedule vs. performance, reduce on-site visits, and monitor and track progress.
Image courtesy of WSB
Enable Collaboration for Better Results
Advance coordination with supply chain and stakeholders to reduce the risk of delays. Improve safety and enable first-time-right construction. Close communication gaps between the field and office with shared access to site reports, issues, and safety observations to speed decisions.
Image courtesy of New York State DOT
Manage Construction in One Place
Plan and manage your people, materials, and equipment more easily and affordably. Visualize live construction information in 2D, 3D, and 4D so that you can better track project performance and make better, faster, data-driven decisions.
Construction Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
4D/5D Planning & Simulation
Turn design models into construction models with model-based scheduling and construction simulations. The immersive 4D environment helps to reduce project risks and delays and avoid costly rework.
Construction Project Management
Access and capture data in context including project updates, inspections and RFIs. Create custom forms, flag issues and view model progress – directly from the field.
Construction Field & Performance Management
Drive project performance with real-time field progress, cost data, project reports, and insights. Make better and quicker decisions that minimize project errors and maximize team productivity.
Road and Bridge Operations
Improve asset and network performance to deliver safe, reliable, compliant, and cost-effective service.
Image courtesy of Collins Engineers
Make Bridge Inspections Faster, Easier, and Safer
Quickly capture, analyze, and manage data in the field or from the office, helping you improve the decisions made while meeting regulatory reporting requirements and ensuring safe and reliable infrastructure assets.
Manage Complex Linear Road Network Information
Drive data consistency, optimize resources and reduce costs. Use data to improve decision-making and streamline operations. Ensure timely and accurate highway performance monitoring system submissions.
Analyze Oversize/Overweight Vehicles in Real-time
Ensure safe travel of permitted vehicles using routes validated against restrictions and live bridge ratings. Improve reliability and accuracy of routing information and comply with transportation rules and regulations.
Operations Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
BRIDGE MONITORING AND INSPECTION
Enables rapid capture, analysis, and management of bridge data in the field or from the office, to improve decisions and ensure safe and reliable infrastructure assets.
Linear Road Network Management
Manage complex transportation networks with a single source of truth for asset information across your road network.
Hear From Our Users
NYSDOT
Industrializes the East 138th Street Bridge Using Digital Twin
The New York State Department of Transportation uses Bentley applications to accurately convey planning and resolve costly on-site construction issues.
Foth
Digital Engineering Delivers
The team used Bentley’s civil applications to facilitate an innovative design solution, estimated to save USD 32 million over 25 years.
Government of Malaysia
Pan Borneo Highway Asset Management – Sarawak, Malaysia
The government of Malaysia leveraged digital twins to deliver trusted information for better project and asset management and saving thousands of resource hours.
WSB and Minnesota DOT
Elk River Highway Reconstruction - Minnesota U.S.
Use of 3D modeling, visualization, and construction simulation applications helped save over USD 15 million. Clash detection saved 18 months in relocating utilities, while 4D construction scheduling accelerated construction activities by 3 months.
BALFOUR BEATTY
Forder Valley Link Road New Junction Construction – Plymouth U.K.
The team was able to share information among all stakeholders and establish a 4D model and digital workflows, determining an optimal construction scenario that would minimize impact on the public and improve traffic flows.
JMC2
Road Revitalization – California, U.S.
JMC2’s design provided a safer, more attractive pedestrian environment while bringing the area into compliance with current Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards.
WGI
Road Design Survey of East Selmon Expressway – Florida, U.S.
3D digital model of complex roadway provided unified environment reducing staff survey time on site, improving safety and reducing site visit labor costs.
Italferr S.P.A.
Uses Digital Twins to Build Viaduct
Bentley applications helped automate processes and streamline collaboration to meet a tight schedule on the EUR 200 million roadway.
Collins Engineers, Inc.
Restore Pedestrian Bridge
Leveraging digital twin applications saved 20% in field inspection time by accurately identifying repairs.
