Roads & Bridges
Turn Data Into Insights
Connect the physical and virtual world to better plan, design, construct and operate road networks.
FEATURED SOLUTIONS
Modernize bridge management using digital twins for faster, secure data creation, real-time insights, and streamlined collaboration.
Explore Bridge Solutions ❯
Simplify road and bridge design with discipline-specific solutions that optimize insights to mitigate risk, rework, and cost overruns.
Improve construction project planning with 4D digital workflows, using data-driven models to streamline processes and ensure efficient, safer road and bridge projects.
Accelerate Planning To Operations
Digital delivery benefits your road or bridge project from planning, design, construction, and operations. Make better decisions, gain insights, increase collaboration, improve asset performance, and achieve better business outcomes.
Accelerate Planning Through Construction
Digital delivery improves design efficiency with a complete representation of the design intent. Optimize collaboration and coordination with your stakeholders and citizens, assess and understand existing conditions, and understand the financial impact.
Advance Construction Management
Easily plan and manage your people, materials, and equipment. Visualize live construction information to track project performance and make data-driven decisions. Enable first-time-right construction, manage project schedule vs performance and reduce on-site visits.
Rehabilitate & Preserve Aging Infrastructure
Take on the huge task of rehabilitating or repairing roads and bridges. It’s time to adopt innovative digital twin technology to make inspections faster, easier, and safer. Ensure regulatory compliance, lower operational costs, and reduce asset downtime.
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Road and Bridge Planning
Digital delivery technology will help you communicate project plans to stakeholders and citizens in a comprehensive and visually compelling way to enable faster buy-in on projects. Manage and mitigate your project risk, optimize collaboration and coordination, assess existing conditions and understand financial impact.
Automatically Create Digital Context for Digital Twins
Use photographs and/or point clouds to cost-effectively produce 3D models of the most challenging existing site conditions for your road or bridge project.
Image courtesy of PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Manage, Extract, and Share 3D Mapping Data
You can share vast amounts of imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data to improve collaboration and get the best performance from reality modeling and digital twins.
Image courtesy of WGI
Develop Predictive Simulation Models
Know the impact before implementation and make better decisions the first time. You can collaborate with other departments to identify and correct errors early in the planning process.
Planning Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
Conceptual road & network design
Create conceptual designs to evaluate more options during the planning and pre-bid stage of your project in hours. Design more efficiently, identify high-risk items, and minimize costs.
Survey & reality Modeling
Quickly generate detailed 3D reality meshes using simple photographs or point clouds for use in your projects. Optimize and manage imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data from a variety of sources.
Traffic Planning and Simulation
Simulate traffic and see how changes impact citywide movement and accessibility. Utilize a complete transportation forecasting system for planning the urban, regional and national movement of people.
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Road and Highway Design
Boost productivity and efficiency to deliver higher-quality roadway designs and better outcomes—above and below ground.
Image courtesy of Italferr
Design with real-world context in mind
Make smarter design decisions from the start by incorporating real-world data—such as subsurface conditions, terrain, existing infrastructure, and environmental constraints—directly into your models. This leads to reduced environmental impacts and transportation infrastructure that’s more resilient and aligned to community needs.
Image courtesy of Foth
Collaborate across design disciplines
Empower your teams to not only design but collaborate across different disciplines—whether they’re designing roads, bridges, tunnels, geotechnical, drainage systems, or utilities—by working within a single, unified model. The result is shorter design cycles, faster approvals, and more coordinate design processes.
Image courtesy of PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Integrate project delivery workflows
Clearly communicate design intent and improve constructability by using digital workflows to coordinate early and often with construction teams and other stakeholders. This integrated approach allows you to resolve potential conflicts before breaking ground, reducing costly rework and delays during construction.
Design Solutions and Recommended Software
Bentley’s open, interoperable, and discipline-focused applications streamline roadway planning and design—from concept to completion.
Survey and reality modeling
Innovative solutions for capturing, processing, and integrating real-world data into road infrastructure projects.
Modeling, design, and analysis
Applications for modeling, design, and analysis—above and below ground—including surveying, drainage, underground utilities, and the design of roads, bridges, and tunnels.
Road project delivery
Integrated 2D/3D/4D digital workflows for connecting people and data across design, construction, and maintenance project phases.
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Road and highway construction
Leverage data across design and construction to deliver your roadway projects with greater certainty and less risk.
Optimize preconstruction planning
Visualize and validate your construction plans before work begins—catching issues before they happen and anticipating any delays—by running digital rehearsals and “what-if” scenarios. As a result, you’ll increase on-site safety, minimize public and environmental disruptions, and ensure optimal use of your resources.
Image courtesy of WSB
Improve construction efficiency
Enable your teams to make faster, better-informed decisions—whether they’re in the office or out in the field—by tracking project progress and performance in real-time and aligning everyone around a single up-to-date plan. With this greater visibility you’ll boost productivity, increase efficiency, and keep projects on track.
Image courtesy of New York State DOT
Missing title in word doc?
Strengthen stakeholder alignment. Ensure all stakeholders are aligned by using a 4D construction model to provide a clear, interactive visualization of the project’s timeline, sequence, and progress. This makes complex plans easy for everyone to understand and engage with, increasing transparency for overall better communication and collaboration.
Construction Solutions and Recommended Software
Bentley’s digital construction delivery software improves the planning and execution of roadway projects
4D planning and collaboration
4D construction software for planning, scheduling, and managing construction projects.
Progress and performance tracking
Construction performance solution for real-time insights into roadway project progress and costs.
Field execution mobile app
Mobile field application for real-time data capture and access – from field to office.
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Road and highway operations and maintenance
Understand real-world conditions and usage of your roadways to make smarter maintenance decisions faster
Image courtesy of Collins Engineers
Proactively maintain roadways
Catch roadway issues—such as potholes, faded lane markings or vegetation overgrowth—before they become critical by using AI to analyze imagery from sources such as dashcams and Google Maps. This proactive approach enables you to prioritize maintenance needs, maximize your budget, and extend the life of your roadways.
Automate your asset inventory
Easily identify and classify all your roadway assets by using reality data to automatically detect and catalog signs, guardrails, and pavement markings. As a result, you’ll reduce the time, cost, and effort needed to maintain an accurate and up-to-date asset inventory and improve road infrastructure management.
Plan smarter mobility networks
Answer your roadway planning “what if” questions by incorporating multimodal transport network modeling and modern travel demand forecasting capabilities in one place. This enables you to inform planning initiatives faster and more accurately than ever before and support more efficient, resilient, and sustainable mobility.
Operations and maintenance solutions and recommended software
Bentley’s proactive and predictive maintenance tools improve roadway performance and maximize their lifespan.
Asset detection and analysis
An AI-powered platform for automating roadway condition assessments and asset inventories for transportation agencies.
Asset capture, modeling, and monitoring
A solution for quickly acquiring, analyzing, and transforming data from various sources to capture, model, and monitor roadway assets.
Traffic planning and simulation
Traffic planning and simulation software for modeling, analyzing, and optimizing road transportation networks.
Road and Bridge Planning
Digital delivery technology will help you communicate project plans to stakeholders and citizens in a comprehensive and visually compelling way to enable faster buy-in on projects. Manage and mitigate your project risk, optimize collaboration and coordination, assess existing conditions and understand financial impact.
Automatically Create Digital Context for Digital Twins
Use photographs and/or point clouds to cost-effectively produce 3D models of the most challenging existing site conditions for your road or bridge project.
Image courtesy of PT Waskita Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Manage, Extract, and Share 3D Mapping Data
You can share vast amounts of imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data to improve collaboration and get the best performance from reality modeling and digital twins.
Image courtesy of WGI
Develop Predictive Simulation Models
Know the impact before implementation and make better decisions the first time. You can collaborate with other departments to identify and correct errors early in the planning process.
Planning Solutions & Recommended Software
Bentley offers planning solutions for road and bridges that span from conceptual road network layout and design through traffic simulation and planning.
Conceptual road & network design
Create conceptual designs to evaluate more options during the planning and pre-bid stage of your project in hours. Design more efficiently, identify high-risk items, and minimize costs.
Survey & reality Modeling
Quickly generate detailed 3D reality meshes using simple photographs or point clouds for use in your projects. Optimize and manage imagery, point cloud, and 3D mapping data from a variety of sources.
Traffic Planning and Simulation
Simulate traffic and see how changes impact citywide movement and accessibility. Utilize a complete transportation forecasting system for planning the urban, regional and national movement of people.
Road and Highway Design
Boost productivity and efficiency to deliver higher-quality roadway designs and better outcomes—above and below ground.
Image courtesy of Italferr
Design with real-world context in mind
Make smarter design decisions from the start by incorporating real-world data—such as subsurface conditions, terrain, existing infrastructure, and environmental constraints—directly into your models. This leads to reduced environmental impacts and transportation infrastructure that’s more resilient and aligned to community needs.
Image courtesy of Foth
Collaborate across design disciplines
Empower your teams to not only design but collaborate across different disciplines—whether they’re designing roads, bridges, tunnels, geotechnical, drainage systems, or utilities—by working within a single, unified model. The result is shorter design cycles, faster approvals, and more coordinate design processes.
Image courtesy of PT Wijaya Karya (Persero) Tbk.
Integrate project delivery workflows
Clearly communicate design intent and improve constructability by using digital workflows to coordinate early and often with construction teams and other stakeholders. This integrated approach allows you to resolve potential conflicts before breaking ground, reducing costly rework and delays during construction.
Design Solutions and Recommended Software
Bentley’s open, interoperable, and discipline-focused applications streamline roadway planning and design—from concept to completion.
Survey and reality modeling
Innovative solutions for capturing, processing, and integrating real-world data into road infrastructure projects.
Modeling, design, and analysis
Applications for modeling, design, and analysis—above and below ground—including surveying, drainage, underground utilities, and the design of roads, bridges, and tunnels.
Road project delivery
Integrated 2D/3D/4D digital workflows for connecting people and data across design, construction, and maintenance project phases.
Road and highway construction
Leverage data across design and construction to deliver your roadway projects with greater certainty and less risk.
Optimize preconstruction planning
Visualize and validate your construction plans before work begins—catching issues before they happen and anticipating any delays—by running digital rehearsals and “what-if” scenarios. As a result, you’ll increase on-site safety, minimize public and environmental disruptions, and ensure optimal use of your resources.
Image courtesy of WSB
Improve construction efficiency
Enable your teams to make faster, better-informed decisions—whether they’re in the office or out in the field—by tracking project progress and performance in real-time and aligning everyone around a single up-to-date plan. With this greater visibility you’ll boost productivity, increase efficiency, and keep projects on track.
Image courtesy of New York State DOT
Missing title in word doc?
Strengthen stakeholder alignment. Ensure all stakeholders are aligned by using a 4D construction model to provide a clear, interactive visualization of the project’s timeline, sequence, and progress. This makes complex plans easy for everyone to understand and engage with, increasing transparency for overall better communication and collaboration.
Construction Solutions and Recommended Software
Bentley’s digital construction delivery software improves the planning and execution of roadway projects
4D planning and collaboration
4D construction software for planning, scheduling, and managing construction projects.
Progress and performance tracking
Construction performance solution for real-time insights into roadway project progress and costs.
Field execution mobile app
Mobile field application for real-time data capture and access – from field to office.
Road and highway operations and maintenance
Understand real-world conditions and usage of your roadways to make smarter maintenance decisions faster
Image courtesy of Collins Engineers
Proactively maintain roadways
Catch roadway issues—such as potholes, faded lane markings or vegetation overgrowth—before they become critical by using AI to analyze imagery from sources such as dashcams and Google Maps. This proactive approach enables you to prioritize maintenance needs, maximize your budget, and extend the life of your roadways.
Automate your asset inventory
Easily identify and classify all your roadway assets by using reality data to automatically detect and catalog signs, guardrails, and pavement markings. As a result, you’ll reduce the time, cost, and effort needed to maintain an accurate and up-to-date asset inventory and improve road infrastructure management.
Plan smarter mobility networks
Answer your roadway planning “what if” questions by incorporating multimodal transport network modeling and modern travel demand forecasting capabilities in one place. This enables you to inform planning initiatives faster and more accurately than ever before and support more efficient, resilient, and sustainable mobility.
Operations and maintenance solutions and recommended software
Bentley’s proactive and predictive maintenance tools improve roadway performance and maximize their lifespan.
Asset detection and analysis
An AI-powered platform for automating roadway condition assessments and asset inventories for transportation agencies.
Asset capture, modeling, and monitoring
A solution for quickly acquiring, analyzing, and transforming data from various sources to capture, model, and monitor roadway assets.
Traffic planning and simulation
Traffic planning and simulation software for modeling, analyzing, and optimizing road transportation networks.
Hear From Our Users
NYSDOT
Industrializes the East 138th Street Bridge Using Digital Twin
The New York State Department of Transportation uses Bentley applications to accurately convey planning and resolve costly on-site construction issues.
Foth
Digital Engineering Delivers
The team used Bentley’s civil applications to facilitate an innovative design solution, estimated to save USD 32 million over 25 years.
Government of Malaysia
Pan Borneo Highway Asset Management – Sarawak, Malaysia
The government of Malaysia leveraged digital twins to deliver trusted information for better project and asset management and saving thousands of resource hours.
WSB and Minnesota DOT
Elk River Highway Reconstruction - Minnesota U.S.
Use of 3D modeling, visualization, and construction simulation applications helped save over USD 15 million.
BALFOUR BEATTY
Forder Valley Link Road New Junction Construction – Plymouth U.K.
The team was able to share information among all stakeholders and establish a 4D model and digital workflows, determining an optimal construction scenario that would minimize impact on the public and improve traffic flows.
JMC2
Road Revitalization – California, U.S.
JMC2’s design provided a safer, more attractive pedestrian environment while bringing the area into compliance with current Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards.
WGI
Road Design Survey of East Selmon Expressway – Florida, U.S.
3D digital model of complex roadway provided unified environment reducing staff survey time on site, improving safety and reducing site visit labor costs.
Collins Engineers, Inc.
Restore Pedestrian Bridge
Leveraging digital twin applications saved 20% in field inspection time by accurately identifying repairs.
