BRIDGITISE

The BRIDGITISE doctoral network focuses on the digitalisation of bridge management across the lifecycle through the development of innovative approaches to information management. The basic idea underlying the project is that the achievement of excellence in this field requires the development and validation onsite of innovative technologies for the cost-effective management of bridge information and their use to support decisions relevant to bridge integrity management across the lifecycle. To this aim, a network of 15+1 PhD projects is structured around three main research and training clusters focused on the development and validation of: -innovative low-cost, large scale and automatic technologies, to collect bridge information - Artificial Intelligence and IoT technologies specifically tailored to bridges to process and share information, - digital decision support tools able to manage bridges across their lifecycle The project combines the expertise of six universities, one research center, and seventeen industrial companies and end-users who provide case studies to apply and validate the project results thereby fostering the technological transfer of the research findings.