“…Many researchers deal with another PI called Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) (Chang and Shinozuka, 1996;Frangopol et al, 1997Frangopol et al, , 2001Kong and Frangopol, 2003;Soliman and Frangopol, 2014;Wessels et al, 2014;Biondini and Frangopol, 2016;Rossi et al, 2017), i.e., the sum of all the costs that an owner has to sustain during the entire service-life of a bridge structure. LCC seems to be a promising economic PI in bridge management practices, even if some cautions have to be used when actualizing future cash flows if the time horizon is too long.…”