As bridges progress through their initial design lives and as volumes of traffic continue to increase, bridge maintenance and management have become of increasing concern to governments/state agencies worldwide who are responsible for the upkeep of this aging resource. In 2001, the EIRSPAN Bridge Management System was introduced in Ireland to help the National Roads Authority (NRA) coordinate and integrate activities such as bridge inspection, repairs, and rehabilitation work in order to ensure optimal management of the nations road structure stock. As yet, however, whole-life costing is only available on a bridge by bridge basis and not on a network level. Therefore in 2009, the NRA launched a research initiative with the intention of developing a Bridge Network Life-Cycle Cost Model which would tie in with EIRSPAN and help the NRA better manage their maintenance strategies.