Bridge management system techniques application to Italian highways network

This paper describes the main bridge management techniques and tools Sineco adopts to assess more than 1000 km of italian highways infrastructures network, on which the company yearly performs inspections, evaluates needs, programs maintenance activities and develops single-bridge rehabilitation projects. The Bridge Management Systems tools Sineco adopts are:

– SIOS (Sistema Ispezione Opere Sineco), an inspection system, directly developed by Sineco since 1994, actually applied to 1300 highway assets (including bridges and viaducts).