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Management of overweight vehicle traffic on road bridges

 Management of overweight vehicle traffic on road bridges
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Presented at IABSE Conference: Assessment, Upgrading and Refurbishment of Infrastructures, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 6-8 May 2013, published in , pp. 60-61
DOI: 10.2749/222137813806474255
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Bridges in service in most Western Countries were built according to codes with design loads that are now inconsistent with today’s traffic demands. Currently, transportation agencies do not know h...
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Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Conference: Assessment, Upgrading and Refurbishment of Infrastructures, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 6-8 May 2013
Published in:
Page(s): 60-61 Total no. of pages: 8
Page(s): 60-61
Total no. of pages: 8
Year: 2013
DOI: 10.2749/222137813806474255
Abstract:

Bridges in service in most Western Countries were built according to codes with design loads that are now inconsistent with today’s traffic demands. Currently, transportation agencies do not know how to respond to transit applications on their bridges. This contribution focuses on the legal issues entailed by overweight/oversize load permits issued by transportation agencies. Indeed, correct decision-making should consider the legal liabilities involved in possible catastrophic events. In this paper we illustrate how this problem is addressed by the Department of Transportation of the Italian Autonomous Province of Trento (APT), a medium-sized agency managing approximately one thousand bridges across its territory. In their basic approach, APT does not authorize movement of overweight loads unless it is demonstrated that their effect is less than that of the nominal design load. When this condition is not satisfied, a formal evaluation is carried out in an attempt to assess a higher load rating for the bridge. If, after the reassessment, the rating is still insufficient, the bridge is classified as sub-standard and a formal evaluation of the operational risk is performed to define a priority ranking for future reinforcement or replacement.

Keywords:
bridge management multi-level assessment overweight vehicles