Bridge Management System Phase 2. Final Report, Volume 2. A Standardized CostDatabase for the PONTIS BMS

摘要

At present, more than forty state departments of transportation are planning toimplement Pontis, a comprehensive and powerful bridge management system developed by Cambridge Systematics. Research was conducted to solicit, compile, and analyze cost data that could be shared by the Pontis user states. A questionnaire survey was executed and a number of regional workshops were conducted to obtain element and action cost data in three categories: expert opinion, element and action cost data in three categories: expert opinion, historical costs, and ongoing project costs. Seventeen states contributed 2283 data points that correspond to 447 of 468 Pontis actions. The data were analyzed by data type and geographical region. In addition, the relationship between total project costs and selected categories of indirect cost (mobilization, traffic control and structure disposal) were determined through regression analysis.