Technical Advisory Groups

June 20, 2025

Are you interested in getting more involved with AASHTOWare Bridge Management? Consider joining a Technical Advisory Group (TAG)! This opportunity allows users to share their expertise with the bridge community, offering valuable insights without a significant time commitment. TAGs play a crucial role by providing specialized knowledge and helping to ensure that product developments meet the needs of the AASHTO user community. For more information on any of the 4 TAGs outlined below, contact Ryan Fragapane, Product Director.

• The Testing TAG is primarily in charge of beta testing major releases of BrM. The goal of the TAG is to provide early feedback so that issues can be addressed before they are released to the entire community. Testing can be performed on vendor-hosted installations, or an agency can install the Beta release to test against their environment. This team has input on enhancements before they are released and votes to approve releases.

• The Database TAG looks into changes in the database and helps to advise on different setups and schemas. The benefit of this tag is that it allows them to use software to see changes to the database to advise on possible structural changes and to see new changes early to the database to allow input into these changes.

• The Optimizer TAG is an open forum for people to discuss different optimization methods that may be in the Product or may want to be in the Product. Also, it is an excellent way to discuss what people are doing with different ways to do optimization in the Product.

• The Reports and Dashboard TAG helps with determining what the baseline reports are in Product. This may include reports that are no longer needed and reports needed for new features, how they are laid out, and what information they should contain. They also may look at the ability to change what types of reporting engines are needed or things of a graphical nature that are possibly needed in reporting.