A pontoon bridge (or ponton bridge), also known as a floating bridge, is a bridge that uses floats or shallow- draft boats to support a continuous deck for pedestrian and vehicle travel. The buoyancy of the supports limits the maximum load that they can carry. Building bridge piers all the way to solid ground would have required staggeringly sized supports. Instead of spanning the gap between two fixed supports, it rests on hollow pontoons or barges that displace water and use buoyancy to hold up the road deck. Floating bridges represent feasible options in this project with already two long span floating bridges in function, i. the Bergsøysund and Nordhordaland Bridges. In connection with this project, one of the main objectives is to quantify the accuracy of the numerical methods used to predict. Floating bridges have been in use since ancient times to establish a crossing over water barriers where construction of a normal bridge was not feasible. The early civilizations such as the Greeks and Persians utilized these structures by constructing simple rafts and planks to transport armies and.