Pontis is a software application development to help deal with highway bridges and other structures. Pontis stores are bridged according to American inspection and inventory data. Program Guide for National Bridge Inventory System (NBIS) of Federal Highway Management (FHWA). In addition, the data stored in the system are the structural elements of each bridge.

The system is designed to support the bridge inspection process at one or more bridges, recommend the bridge preservation policy, predict the future bridge situation and recommend the project implementation to benefit most agencies and users from the designated budget. The system uses a Markov process to determine the deterioration of the bridge and recommend an optimal preservation policy. It uses the model results of Markov process together with imitation model to predict the future situation and recommend work.

the name "Pontis" is obtained from Latin "pontine", which means bridge. Pontis was first developed for FHWA by Cambridge Systematics, Inc. and Optima Inc The system was developed by AASHTO, which now owns interstate highway and transportation officials, and Michael Baker? Corporation and Cambridge Systematics, Inc. play the role of contractors for AASHTO and provide continuous support for the system. Since 28, it has been licensed by AASHTO to 45 United States. State that the transportation department and other organizations are in the United States. And other countries. Pontis is a registered trademark of AASHTO.