AASHTOWare Project Is Getting a Major Upgrade

June 10, 2026

AASHTOWare Project is about to get a whole lot better.

Over the next five years, the platform your agency relies on every day is being transformed. It’s being redesigned from the ground up with a modern interface, faster performance, continuous updates, and the kind of user experience you’d expect from the best tools in your professional life. And it’s happening without disrupting the work you’re doing right now.

This isn’t a distant promise. It’s already underway.

Why Now?

Let’s be direct about what’s driving this. The current system works; you’ve built careers and delivered billions of dollars in transportation projects on it. But the technology underneath is showing its age. Updates take too long. The interface requires extensive training. Customizations have become fragile. And every year, maintaining the status quo gets harder and more expensive.

The modernization changes that trajectory. It means a platform that’s built to evolve with you, not one that holds you back.

Here’s what that actually looks like.

A System That Works the Way You’d Expect

The biggest change you’ll notice is how the system feels. The new interface is being designed around how people actually work: cleaner navigation, fewer clicks, faster load times, and layouts that make sense the first time you see them.

The fundamental jobs you do every day aren’t going anywhere: creating projects, building estimates, assembling bid packages, managing lettings, awarding contracts. You’ll still need your expertise and your business knowledge. But the system will stop getting in your way and start helping you move faster.

And here’s the part that matters most for your day-to-day: updates will arrive as small, continuous improvements, not massive annual releases that require weeks of preparation. When something needs to be better, it gets better in days, not months.

Nothing Changes Until You’re Ready

We know what you’re thinking: Not another migration.

This is fundamentally different. There is no big-bang cutover. There is no single day where the old system disappears and a new one takes its place.

Instead, the modernization rolls out module by module, workflow by workflow. During the transition, the current system and the new experience run side by side, pointing to the same data, available at the same time. You choose when to start using the new workflows. Your agency transitions at your own pace, on your own terms.

No agency will be asked to move to a new workflow until it’s been built, tested with real users, and validated in a production environment. If a workflow isn’t ready, the current version stays right where it is. There is no gap in service, ever.

Your Data Is Safe. Full Stop.

All of it stays exactly where it is: the records you’ve built, the history you’ve maintained, the information your agency depends on. Fully accessible, fully intact.

For agencies that use direct database access for reporting, a dedicated data warehouse for your agency will mirror the familiar data structure with near-real-time updates. Your read-based queries keep working; you just point them to a new location.

Your Customizations Aren’t Being Left Behind

We know many agencies have invested years of effort into customizations: reports, stored procedures, integrations with state systems, agency views with calculation logic. That investment matters, and it’s not being thrown away.

In Year 1, the team will sit down with every agency to conduct a thorough inventory of your configurations, customizations, and integrations, module by module. The goal is to understand everything your agency relies on and build a documented plan for each item. Where customizations are common across agencies, they’ll be built right into the core product, meaning you’ll get a supported, upgrade-proof version of something you used to maintain on your own. Where they’re unique to your agency, modern tools and frameworks will provide clean, maintainable paths forward.

The commitment: the business outcome your customizations were built to achieve will be preserved, even as the technology underneath evolves.

Updates Come to You

One of the most exciting changes is how the modernized platform delivers improvements. Instead of waiting months for a release cycle, the new model supports frequent, incremental updates, small improvements every few weeks that are easier to absorb and faster to refine.

When a workflow transitions, in-app guides and walkthroughs will show you what’s new right inside the application, no separate training event required. And if something doesn’t land right after a change, the team can respond and deploy a fix in hours or days.

Think about how different that is from today.

Your Voice Shapes What Gets Built

This isn’t being built in a vacuum. Your feedback, including what works, what frustrates you, and where the gaps are, directly influences how every workflow is designed.

There are several ways to get involved:

• The Communication Hub at AASHTOWareProject.org is the home base: roadmap, status updates, FAQ, and a direct feedback channel all in one place.
• The User Testing Group gives you a seat at the table to preview and react to workflow changes before they’re finalized.
• Office Hours and TAG Meetings provide open forums and module-specific sessions where your input goes straight to the team building the product.

Agencies that engage early have the greatest influence over how the product takes shape. If you’ve ever wished the system worked differently, this is your chance to make that happen.

Three Things You Can Do Right Now

1. Verify your environment. Make sure your agency is hosted and running the latest version of AASHTOWare Project.
2. Designate a point of contact. Identify the person who will partner with the modernization team during the customization inventory. Sign up at AASHTOWareProject.org.
3. Join the conversation. Subscribe to the Communication Hub, sign up for office hours, and consider joining the User Testing Group.

This Is the Future of AASHTOWare Project

The modernization is a strategic investment in the platform your agency will rely on for the next decade and beyond, funded through existing license fees, designed to minimize disruption, and built around one principle: no agency transitions until the new experience is ready, validated, and proven.

Your workflows. Your data. Your expertise. All protected, with a better, faster, more intuitive platform on the way.

We’re excited about what’s ahead. We hope you are too.

Visit the Communication Hub at AASHTOWareProject.org for the full FAQ, roadmap, and to sign up for updates.

Questions? Reach the modernization team at AWPModernization@infotechinc.com.