Systematische Brückenerhaltung - eine fachübergreifende Herausforderung

Systematic maintenance of Bridges - a multidisciplinary challenge

The business location Germany requires an efficient and reliable road infrastructure. Bridges can become a bottleneck when unplanned traffic restrictions to the point of closures can occur. In the past this possible situation wasn't considered sufficiently and thus it is to attach more importance to systematic bridge maintenance. The reasons for the current state of the bridges are as varied as the bridges themselves. Planning and execution errors play a role, but also the fact that traffic has increased significantly more than any forecast of the past have predicted is very important. Bridges are normally unique and therefore they behave very differently. So the spectrum of the necessary collection and assessment options and the resulting maintenance measures are very diverse. Thus, the challenge in the future is to address this diversity appropriately in order to obtain the bridges as sustainable as possible. The different tools exist for it, shall be developed and updated. Now it's time to use these facilities systematically, to find the most suitable maintenance measures for the entire bridge inventory with the least possible effort and the least possible interferences of the traffic before and during the maintenance actions.