Pontis is a comprehensive bridge management system software tool that plays a vital role in a transportation agency's asset management process. It can assist agencies in allocating scarce resources to preserve existing infrastructure investments, ensure safety and maintain mobility. Pontis stores inventory and inspection information about bridges, culverts and other structures in a relational database that supports an innovative set of modeling, analysis and reporting tools to facilitate project, budget and program development. Pontis helps formulate network-wide preservation and improvement policies for use in evaluating the needs of each structure in a network; and makes project recommendations to include in an agency's capital plan. It also analyzes the impact of different project alternatives on the performance of individual structures or a network of structures.