Resource Allocation Methodology for Historic Bridge Preservation

The overall goal in historic bridge preservation is to maintain the historic integrity, aesthetic value, commercial value, and functionality of bridges while limiting expenditures. In the case of historic bridges, nearly every element of every bridge would benefit from some level of service beyond routine maintenance. However, due to limited budgets, not all work that bridge owners may prefer to be performed is feasible. For this reason, a resource allocation methodology that designates funding to the most significant structures or the elements of structure is useful to bridge-owning agencies. In fact such methodology must consider costs and benefits of all options. For example, replacing a member carries benefits such as improvement of the current condition, lengthening of the expected service life, and reduction of future costs of maintenance and repair; but the costs of replacement can include a high initial cost and a potential loss of historic integrity. This paper presents a resource allocation framework that can be used to help agencies make more efficient use of available funding for historic bridge preservation. The framework is designed to be a means of helping bridge-owning agencies determine which actions are the most beneficial while taking feasibility into account.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHD35 Standing Committee on Bridge Management.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Puls, Eric
  • Damnjanovic, Ivan
  • Hueste, Mary Beth D
  • Hurlebaus, Stefan
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 98th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2019-1-13 to 2019-1-17
• Date: 2019

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 5p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Historic bridges; Historic preservation; Methodology; Resource allocation
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways; History; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01698191
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 19-01330
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 1 2019 3:51PM