Point of View: Needed—Innovative Methods to Fix Our Nation's Failing Bridges

A national bridge inventory in 2006 classified 73,764 bridges (12.4%) as "structurally deficient." In its 2005 Report Card for America's Infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave the nation's bridge infrastructure a grade of C because of the large number of deficient bridges. Stating that this is not acceptable, the Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science and Technology outlines a course of action to safeguard the health of the nation's transportation infrastructure.

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• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This a reprint of an article that appeared in the St. Cloud Times, October 11, 2007.
• Authors:
  • Gordon, Bart
• Publication Date: 2007-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Photos;
• Pagination: p 38
• Serial:
  • TR News
  • Issue Number: 253
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0738-6826
  • Serial URL: https://doi.org/10.17226/895

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridges; Research; Structural deterioration and defects; Technological innovations; Technology transfer
• Uncontrolled Terms: Functionally deficient bridges; Transportation infrastructure
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Design; Education and Training; Highways; Research; I24: Design of Bridges and Retaining Walls;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01086725
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Jan 28 2008 2:54PM