Analytical Tools

August 20, 2021

The AASHTOWare Bridge Management Task Force is in constant pursuit of providing the user community with effective and easy-to-use tools to perform their jobs effectively. Analytical tools are a recent addition to the BrM software that provides exactly that. Version 6.5 of the software added two additional r

eports: NBI Element Conversions Report and Time in State Report. These reports work in both Oracle and SQL Server. Additionally, Mayvue is working on a Project Importer tool that will be available in Version 6.6. The goal of these tools is to allow users to analyze their bridge networks and optimization results more easily.

• NBI Element Conversions Report (available in 6.5): This shows how the conversion profiles are interacting with the inspection data.
• Time in State Report (available in 6.5): This shows how long bridges have been in their rating condition, including when the bridge was assigned a condition rating along with the last date that it was in that condition. Available in 6.5.
• Project Importer (coming in Version 6.6): This feature will allow users to download a Microsoft Excel template from the Project > Upload Project. From there, the user can populate the template with their project information and upload/import those projects into BrM. This will eliminate the manual data entry that previously existed for agencies.