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Title:

Protection of Critical Bridges and Tunnels in a Road Network

Accession Number:

01124542

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

An effective and secure road network is essential in order to guarantee mobility and supply for the whole population. Particularly bridges and tunnels are key elements of the road network. Restrictions of the availability of these infrastructures may lead to intense traffic interferences on the surrounding road network resulting in negative effects on the road user, high economic follow-up costs and negative environmental impacts. In order to improve the protection of transport infrastructure the national research program “Research for Civil Security” was initiated and funded by the German Federal Government. On March 1st, 2008 the research project “Protection of critical bridges and tunnels in a road network (SKRIBT - Schutz kritischer Brücken und Tunnel im Zuge von Straßen)” started. The aim of the project SKRIBT is to identify decisive threat scenarios which could directly affect bridges and tunnels and their users, investigate their effects on the structures and their users and determine the benefits of different protection measures. The result of the project should be a holistic methodology for the determination of effective and efficient structural, operational and organizational protection measures which increase the security of road users and ensure a high availability of road transport infrastructures. This paper gives an overview about the content and structure of the project SKRIBT. First results of the threat analysis (WP1) and the outline for the catalog of protection measures (WP2) will be given in the presentation.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was presented at the Cairns International Public Works Conference, 2007, Cairns, Queensland, Australia.

Monograph Accession #:

01120148

Report/Paper Numbers:

09-0158

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kaundinya, Ingo
Heimbecher, Frank
Krieger, Jurgen

Pagination:

10p

Publication Date:

2009

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 88th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2009-1-11 to 2009-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (3) ; Maps (1) ; Photos (2) ; References (3)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Transportation infrastructure

Subject Areas:

Highways; Security and Emergencies; I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2009 Paper #09-0158

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 30 2009 4:24PM