State Bridge Load Posting Processes and Practices
This report is a synthesis of the practices of U.S. state governments in restricting weights of vehicles that can cross highway bridges and culverts to levels below legal loads. Bridges and culverts restricted for vehicle weights are called load posted structures. The load posting practices of bridge owners include the identification of structures to post for load, the evaluation of safe load capacities of these structures, and the implementation of restrictions on vehicle weights at structures. The synthesis gathers information on loads and posting for load from the United States Code, U.S. Department of Transportation National Bridge Inventory, states’ statutes and administrative codes, state department of transportation manuals and published advice to commercial carriers, and a survey of states’ representatives to the Subcommittee on Bridges and Structures of American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials .
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Authors:
- Hearn, George
- Publication Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 144p
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Serial:
- NCHRP Synthesis of Highway Practice
- Issue Number: 453
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0547-5570
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Highway bridges; Load limits; Signs; State government; Syntheses; Vehicle weight
- Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01522113
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9780309271165
- Report/Paper Numbers: Project 20-05, Topic 44-15
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Apr 17 2014 11:45AM