Bridge owner's benefits from probabilistic approaches

摘要: The growth of national economies in the latter half twentieth century has resulted steadily increasing traffic volumes on trading routes and an increase demands placed ageing bridge stock. Ironically, economic not budgets available to owners for maintenance their resource. approach adopted by Danish Road Directorate addressing this challenge been exploit advances scientific methods management its bridges. use probabilistic approaches within areas capacity assessment bridges, ship impact assessments have substantial cost savings, future repair needs minimized. Examples various where applied are given, both technical administrative financial benefits presented.