Florida DOT Project-Level Bridge Management Models |
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Authors: | Paul D. Thompson John O. Sobanjo Richard Kerr |
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Affiliation: | 1Consultant, 2425 Hawken Drive, Castle Rock, CO 80109. 2Associate Professor, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, FAMU/FSU College of Engineering, 2525 Pottsdamer Street, Room 129, Tallahassee, FL 32310-6046. 3State Maintenance Office, Florida Dept. of Transportation, 605 Suwannee Street, Mail Stop 52, Tallahassee, FL 32399-0450.
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Abstract: | The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is in the process of implementing Pontis, a Bridge Management System, to provide decision support to engineers in the headquarters and district offices as they make routine policy, programming, and budgeting decisions regarding the preservation and improvement of the state’s bridges. As part of this effort, an ongoing research program is underway to adapt the system to FDOT needs as well as to advance the state of the art in several areas important to the Department. Most of the research results are organized around a new project-level decision support framework that complements and builds on Pontis’ existing network-level analysis. Specific new models include accident risk and user cost due to roadway width and alignment deficiencies; user cost of load capacity and vertical clearance restrictions, and moveable bridge openings; project-level prediction models for bridge element condition and costs; and prediction of economics of scale and scoping possibilities. The new models are built into a highly graphical spreadsheet model for decision support use. |
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Keywords: | Florida State government Bridges Information systems Models |
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