Bridge inspection is a pathway to bridge condition rating assessment, and is an essential element of any bridge management system (BMS). The success of a BMS is highly dependent on the quality of bridge inspection outcomes and accurate estimation of future bridge condition ratings. However, existing visual bridge inspection methods suffer several limitations due to human subjective judgment. In...

The complexities and costs associated with preserving the nation’s bridge infrastructure demand innovative approaches to analysis of data and prediction of future bridge conditions. Several Bridge Management systems (BMS) have come into existence following the ISTEA act of 1991. The policy analysis module of BMS systems developed is restricted to analytical methods. With the availability of mod...

Bridges deteriorate over their life cycles and require continuous maintenance to ensure their structural integrity, and in turn, the safety of the public. Maintaining bridges is a multi-faceted operation that requires both domain knowledge and analytics techniques over large data sources. Although most existing bridge management systems (BMS) are very efficient at data storage, they are not as ...

This paper introduces the outline of a bridge management strategy based on the prediction of future bridge reliability using a semi-Markov deterioration model. This approach applies equally well to single bridges and to a whole network, and is expected to be implemented in the Bridge Management System (BMS) of the Autonomous Province of Trento (APT). More in detail, the model assumes the lifesp...

Bridges deteriorate over their life cycles and require continuous maintenance to ensure their structural integrity, and in turn, the safety of the public. Maintaining bridges is a multi-faceted operation that requires both domain knowledge and analytics techniques over large data sources. Although most existing bridge management systems (BMS) are very efficient at data storage, they are not as ...

Maintenance and repair of the bridge are inevitable in operation a to maintain its condition keep operation. Indonesia has hundreds thousands bridges that still actively use. The classic problem with infrastructure management, such as bridges, is large numbers generally not balanced adequate maintenance budgets. Therefore,the strategy implementing by preparing priorities becomes only logical ap...

Many countries are using bridge management systems (BMSs) as the main toll for the effective management of their bridges. Although many BMSs contain some forms of life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA), the use of LCCA in bridge engineering is scarce and LCCA has mainly been applied to support decisions related to existing bridges. This paper discuss the need of a BMS with an integrated LCCA tool that...