BEATING TRAFFIC IN BANGKOK

This paper discusses the project to build the world's largest viaduct, the Bang Na-Chonburi Expressway in Bangkok, Thailand, and the issues that were a key to its success. In the early 1990s, the Expressway and Transit Authority of Thailand (ETA) was created to develop a network of elevated toll motorways to relieve traffic congestion. In August 1995, the ETA signed a contract with the BBCD joint venture to build the 55km long eastern link in the network, the Bang Na-Chonburi Expressway. It would have to be planned, designed, and constructed in 53 months. To achieve this remarkable rate, the BBCD asked J Muller International (JMI) to design the viaduct with its superstructures, prepare shop drawings, and design erection equipment to enable construction of 7300 sq.m of bridge deck every week. JMI proposed an innovative solution, which used the latest advances in precast concrete segment technology, and integrated the design of the permanent structure with that of the erection equipment. The integration would play a key part in the project's ultimate success. The precast segmental spans of the viaduct are built using the span-by-span method with match cast joints. The paper describes the segmental viaducts, the main line columns, the segmental precasting, and the ramp structures of the project.

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  Palladian Publications Limited

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• Authors:
  • SHAFER, G
• Publication Date: 2000

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 39-42
• Serial:
  • CONRETE ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue Number: 5
  • Publisher: Palladian Publications Limited
  • ISSN: 1460-5856

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Box girders; Bridges; Cantilevers; Concrete; Construction; Design; Equipment; Freeways; Planning; Precast concrete; Technology; Toll roads; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Bridge spans; Traffic relief
• Geographic Terms: Thailand
• ITRD Terms: 3474: Box girder; 3455: Bridge; 3450: Cantilever; 4755: Concrete; 3655: Construction; 9011: Design (overall design); 3674: Equipment; 2752: Motorway; 143: Planning; 4792: Precast concrete; 3452: Span; 3855: Technology; 8113: Thailand; 2702: Toll road; 631: Traffic relief; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Construction; Design; Highways; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00801694
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Nov 8 2000 12:00AM