Infrastructure Condition
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) requires that all states and Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) measure bridge and roadway pavement conditions to establish performance targets to keep roadway infrastructure in good repair.
Bridge Condition
Pavement Condition
Bridge Condition
With over 2,500 bridges in the OKI region, 531 of which are located on the National Highway System (NHS), maintaining safety and functionality is critical to keeping people and goods moving.
What Determines Bridge Condition?
A bridge is in good condition if its deck, superstructure and substructure were rated in good, very good, or excellent condition.
How is the OKI Region doing?
Since 2021, the number of bridges in both Kentucky and Indiana considered to be in “good condition” has increased 2.4% and 13.9%, respectively (2021-2025). The number of bridges in Ohio in “good condition” has decreased by 4.1% during this period.
Bridges considered to be in “poor condition” have increased in all three states between 2021 and 2025, with Indiana increasing the most (4.5%), followed by Ohio (1.8%) and Kentucky (0.9%).
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Bridges in Good Condition – NHS Network 2021-2025
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Bridges in Poor Condition – NHS Network 2021-2025
Pavement Condition
What Determines Pavement Condition?
Performance ratings of good, fair, or poor condition for pavement are determined by FHWA using a combination of several metrics from data elements collected by state DOTs and reported to the Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS).
These metrics collectively provide a way to quantify pavement condition for roughness and cracking for all pavement types, rutting for asphalt pavement surfaces, and faulting (misalignment between slabs) for jointed concrete pavement surfaces.
Roughness affects users’ travel speeds, safety, comfort and transportation costs. Cracking, rutting and faulting are considered surface indicators of structural deterioration in different pavement types.
How is the OKI Region doing?
In 2024 and 2025, more than 2,6180 centerline miles of pavement were rated based on roughness, faulting, cracking and rutting. Of those miles, 1,044 were located on the NHS.