Alabama Department of Transportation Enhances Performance-Based Budgeting with Bentley Systems’ AI-Powered Blyncsy Solution

EXTON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 5, 2026--

Bentley Systems, Incorporated (Nasdaq: BSY), the infrastructure engineering software company, announced today the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) is using Bentley’s Blyncsy solution to enhance its existing performance-based budgeting process for highway maintenance. ALDOT adopted a performance-based budgeting model more than 15 years ago and continues to refine its implementation to ensure maintenance funds are allocated based on objective, data-driven insights.

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Historically, collecting asset condition data across Alabama’s 11,000 miles of roadway network has required significant manual effort and resources. While ALDOT has long employed a data-driven statewide survey, traditional methods, such as manual inspections, are labor-intensive and can introduce inconsistencies. To improve efficiency and accuracy, ALDOT is incorporating Blyncsy’s automated AI analytics into its established process, providing a faster and more consistent assessment of specific designated roadway assets.

Blyncsy, part of Bentley’s Asset Analytics portfolio, uses crowdsourced high-resolution dash camera imagery from vehicles and applies AI to automatically analyze roadway conditions. This provides a consistent, empirical assessment of critical assets, such as guardrails and signage to name a few, across the entire roadway network. A previous pilot project demonstrated that Blyncsy’s AI models achieved 97% accuracy, providing the reliable data foundation required for precise financial planning.

“To strengthen our performance-based budgeting, we need consistent, quantified data to produce condition assessments across all districts,” said Morgan Musick, Assistant Maintenance Management Engineer at ALDOT. “Bentley’s Blyncsy solution helps us enhance our existing statewide survey by automating certain asset inspections. This technology helps to give us an objective snapshot of our roadway network, enabling us to adjust budgets based on actual asset conditions and ensure funding goes to appropriate maintenance activities in order to better reach a target Level of Service for each asset.”

Mark Pittman, senior director of Transportation AI at Bentley Systems, added, “The future of infrastructure asset management depends on making financial decisions based on empirical evidence rather than historical precedent. By integrating AI-powered asset inspection into its performance-based budgeting process, ALDOT is setting a new standard for data-driven infrastructure planning.”

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Alabama DOT is using Blyncsy from Bentley Systems to enhance its existing performance-based budgeting process for highway maintenance. (Image courtesy of Bentley Systems)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The Nigerian government has announced a new military operation to tackle Islamic militants following the killing of more than 160 people in western Kwara state, many of them reportedly for resisting extremist ideology.

Local officials said 162 people were killed during the Tuesday attack in the villages of Woro and Nuku, one of the deadliest attacks in the country outside of the known conflict hot spots. The gunmen razed homes and looted shops in what Amnesty International’s Nigeria office called “a stunning security failure.”

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack in the Muslim-majority villages. Locals and officials have pointed to various Islamic militant groups, including Nigeria’s homegrown Boko Haram or the Islamic State-linked Lakurawa.

The statement from the Nigerian presidency noted the attackers killed the villagers for rejecting “their obnoxious attempt at indoctrination, choosing instead to practice Islam that is neither extreme nor violent.”

Kwara State Gov. AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said the attack was likely carried out in response to recent counterterrorism operations in the region. Some similar operations have been possible due to intelligence provided by local communities.

The killings also could serve to intimidate other locals and make them more likely to comply with militants' demands.

President Bola Tinubu’s office said in a statement late Wednesday that a Nigerian army battalion will be deployed to Kwara’s Kaiama local government, the area where the attack happened. Kaiama has had a limited security presence until now.

“President Tinubu said the new military command will spearhead Operation Savannah Shield to checkmate the barbaric terrorists and protect defenseless communities,” the statement read.

U.S. President Donald Trump has alleged without evidence that Christians are the primary targets in Nigeria. While Christians have been among those targeted, analysts say the majority of victims of armed groups are Muslims in Nigeria’s north, where most attacks occur.

Despite their initial disagreements, the U.S. administration has since carried out airstrikes targeting Islamic militants in parts of the country as part of wider security efforts in partnership with the Nigerian military. A small team of American officers are also on the ground in Nigeria.

Experts say that Kwara, which has seen a recent spike in deadly attacks and kidnappings, is fast becoming a new frontier for armed groups seeking to expand.

“In certain places, they (armed groups) are finding competition from rival groups, and so a lot of them are in this broader axis because there has traditionally been less competition from other armed groups,” said James Barnett, a researcher at the Washington-based Hudson Institute.

FILE - Nigerian soldiers march during 50th anniversary celebrations of Nigerian independence, in Abuja, Nigeria, Oct. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)

FILE - Nigerian soldiers ride on an armored personnel carrier during Eid al-Fitr celebrations in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Aug. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)