ABSTRACT
Sustainability and digitalization are two main topics in many research programs in Europe and worldwide. It seems that bridge managers can largely benefit from the current digital transformation where processes using digital technologies are able to create new or to enhance existing bridge management systems (BMS). The concepts of sustainability and digitalization are very different in essence and, therefore, the tools needed for their fully adoption in the bridge management environment have to be also different in their basis and formulation. For an optimal adoption and development of both topics, also the actual trends in the bridge management policies, as performance-based decision making and adaptive BMS should be considered. This paper analyzes the actual bridge management policies, trying to evaluate their actual level of sustainability and digitalization. It is shown that although in the technical aspects the final goals are not so far, the human factor (educational and organizational aspects) remains as the critical factor for a full and optimal implementation.
