February 19, 2014

Did You Know?

AASHTO has its very own suite of software designed by transportation professionals for transportation professionals, cooperatively developed and continually updated by experts from state transportation departments across the country.

In 1986, a major stride in AASHTO’s cooperative software joint development efforts—now collectively known as AASHTOWare—took place when AASHTO acquired the software of Florida-based Info Tech’s Bid Analysis and Software System (BAMS) to make it a proprietary computer software product for the benefit of participating member departments.

Since that time, AASHTOWare has grown to its present day suite of products, including AASHTOWare Project, AASHTOWare Bridge, AASHTOWare Pavement, AASHTOWare Safety, and AASHTOWare Right of Way. The program helps state DOTs more easily comply with Federal Highway Administration regulations, AASHTO standards and industry best practices while also allowing the accommodation of state-to-state differences. AASHTOWare efficiently monitors cost, schedules, inventories, inspections, performance, displacements and safety. In covering all this, the software suite helps state DOTs priorities where and how funding should be spent, allows for the creation of fast reports, enables prompt payments from state DOTs to contractors and the federal government while also allowing for faster receipt of federal funding, and provides consistency through state leadership changes. The program pools knowledge and resources, as costs are distributed across many users so that agencies that use AASHTOWare experience large cost savings and receive quality software that matches specific needs.

At present, transportation employees of all 50 states as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Canadian transportation agencies use AASHTOWare products to help users meet various software demands on a daily basis.

Additional information on the various AASHTOWare products is available here.