Bridges & Structures

Download NBI ASCII files 2018

Due to an error that was discovered in all bridge measurement data items, we recommend re-downloading any 2018 data files that were downloaded between 3/15/2019 and 4/16/2019. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Note: The record format has been adjusted to accommodate the Pavement and Bridge Condition Performance Measures final rule. The updated format can be found at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/nbi/format.cfm. Further discussion of the affected data items can be found at https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/britab.cfm.

Instructions for importing the data into excel can be found here: Importing the data into MS Excel

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• Download Highway Bridges for all States (individual state files) as a zip file (52 mb).
• Download Highway Bridges for all States (all states in a single file) as a zip file (52 mb).
• Download all records. Includes non-highway and routes under bridges zip file (56 mb).

Delimited files

Files are comma separated and the single quote is the text qualifier.

• Download Highway Bridges for all States (individual state files) as a zip file (58 mb).
• Download Highway Bridges for all States (in a single file) as a zip file zip file (58 mb)
• Download all records. Includes non-highway and routes under bridges zip file (62 mb).