Oklahoma DOT Bridges Maintenance Needs With Emerging Tech

From AI dashboards to predictive models, the state Department of Transportation is creating a pathway toward tech-driven management of its bridges, with the help of a familiar private-sector partner.

Government Technology

By Ashley Silver

October 01, 2025 

Oklahoma is exploring how AI can change the way bridge data is tracked and managed, centered on a developing system built on Google Cloud that is gradually unifying decades of inspection records into a single, governed source.

Instead of engineers pulling data from different silos, the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) has begun moving its inspection histories, condition reports and other records into Google’s BigQuery data warehouse to eventually coalesce all bridge maintenance data and make it available through dashboards and predictive models. The goal: anticipate problems before they become emergencies.

ODOT staff won’t just be utilizing the BigQuery warehouse to centralize data, but also Google Cloud’s Dataplex Universal Catalog to create a specialized business glossary for the ODOT staff and an analytics hub for secure data sharing.

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