How Oklahoma Department of Transportation got 30 years of inspection records ready for AI

AI must support decisions, not replace them, says one ODOT official.

AI Brew

By Billy Hurley

March 25, 2026

Oklahoma has almost 23,000 bridges, which means it would take a mere human quite a while to answer questions like:

• How many bridges have been considered structurally deficient in the last five years?

• Which county has the most bridges?

• Which bridges have shown the biggest decline in structural integrity over the last decade?

With the help of Google Cloud partner North Highland, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) prepared 30 years of bridge-inspection data for an AI platform that can help public sector employees answer important infrastructure questions.

Prepping bridge report data required a governance effort, a cleanup of inconsistent formats, and human review.

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