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http://www.trb.org/Publications/Blurbs/160401.aspx

The Kansas Department of Transportation Bureau of Local Projects (KDOT BLP) is responsible for condition assessment and needs analysis for more than 20,000 bridges that are owned and maintained by municipalities, counties, and other government authorities. These bridges are often on critical travel routes for school buses, farm operations, and local delivery, as well as general rural transportation. The vast majority of the local structures are inspected by contractors. KDOT BLP has implemented a web-based system to collect bridge conditions statewide, with the objective of maximizing compliance with inspection schedules for all types of inspections, minimizing software implementation obstacles, and eliminating data delivery delays. The paper presents a review of the key design characteristics of the system, agency-specific implementation challenges, integration with the Pontis bridge management system database, software usability review, and an assessment of the software’s fulfillment of the stated agency automation objectives. The paper also discusses technical details of the declarative software design, coupled with extensive database backend programming support, as well as a comprehensive, fine-grained security mechanism, which combined provide KDOT BLP with a flexible, extensible bridge condition assessment system.

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IBSMC08-023

English

pp 135-148

2008-10

Transportation Research Circular

Tenth International Conference on Bridge and Structure Management

Web

Figures (11)

Automation; Bridge management systems; Bridges; Compliance; Condition surveys; Inspection; Software

Pontis (Computer program)

Data reporting; Web-based systems

Kansas

Bridges and other structures; Design; Highways; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls

TRIS, TRB

Oct 30 2008 1:02PM

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