Roadways are essential to connecting people and delivering goods and services across the United States. Currently there are 617,000 bridges which serve a critical linking function to cross waterways, obstacles and other intersected features in our roadway network from coast-to-coast.
With the nation’s infrastructure system aging, nearly 231,000 of U.S. bridges need major repair work or replacement, according to an American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) analysis of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s 2019 National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database, and all of these structures need to be kept safe and operational.
