Panel 2
Title: The situation of road bridges in Europe, what can we do better?
Date: Monday, 25th March 2019 – 10:45 – 12:15
Abstract: Bridge failures such as one that recently occurred in Genova raise the anxiety of general public, which puts the pressure on road authorities to respond to inquires related to the quality of their bridge inventory. In the most cases the readily available data on bridges allow only qualitative information such as average condition state or percentages of bridges or deck areas in each condition state. The founded quantitative information on bridge safety and serviceability is not readily available not even for newly constructed structures although safety and serviceability criteria govern the bridge design. It seems not very reasonable that this information is not stored in the databases let alone updated based on inspection and monitoring results. The panel will discuss the possible ways to store and process design and inspection/monitoring data in order to assess safety and serviceability and based on it to decide upon maintenance intervention. Additionally, the information on safety and serviceability would be at the owner’s fingertips and is readily available in case of inquiries.
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Moderator Rade Hajdin University of Belgrade Serbia |
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Rapporteur Matej Kušar University of Ljubljana Slovenia |
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Rui Coutinho Infraestruturas de Portugal Portugal |
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Christian Honeger ASFINAG Austria |
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Arjen van Maaren Rijkswaterstaat – Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat The Netherlands |
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Sam Beamish Kier Highways Group United Kingdom |
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Panagiotis Panetsos Egnatia Odos S.A. Greece |