Maintaining Contract Project Bridge Segments

A bridge segment is a portion of a bridge used to locate a specific section of a bridge as the site for a project's work or a portion of the project's work. It can also refer to an entire bridge. A bridge segment can be described by a set of starting and ending latitude and longitude measurements.

A bridge segment can also be defined as a set of three starting and ending spatial coordinates (X, Y, Z) for use in GIS applications. Adding three-dimensional coordinates to a bridge segment record enables your agency to connect data much more efficiently. For example, an agency needs to know what highway projects fall within a newly-defined Threatened or Endangered Species habitat. If the bridge segment data is spatially enabled, this can take seconds to perform in a GIS program, but could take weeks to develop the project list if performed manually.

The Bridge Segments tab on the Contract Project Summary contains an accordion list of all the bridge segments associated with the contract project. Each row displays current values for the Bridge ID, Description and Bridge Type fields and an Actions button.

To maintain a bridge segment record, expand the row to display all the available information. You can add and change the information in these fields:

To add or change spatial coordinate information for the bridge segment, expand the Location section of the row. You can add or change information in these fields:

To add a new bridge segment to the contract project, click the New button. The system adds a new row at the bottom of the list of bridge segments. All fields in the new row are blank. To create a bridge segment record, you must enter information in the Bridge ID and Description fields.

To delete a bridge segment record, select Delete from the Actions menu on the bridge segment row.

When you are finished maintaining bridge segment information for the contract project, click the Save button to apply your changes to the system (including deleted information). The system displays a message to confirm that your changes were saved in the database.