ELECTRONIC BRIDGE SITE DATA SUBMITTALS

New interactive electronic forms accessible over the Internet and capable of being sent by email are speeding the process by which bridge design teams in the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) submit for review dozens of categories of data for new and reconstructed bridges. Preliminary investigations of aspects such as vertical and horizontal clearance, survey reports, right of way, flood plain levels and others are now sent directly to the Structure Design team. New forms enable submissions to be standardized and include drop-down menus and sub-programs to automatically prompt and correct data before it is entered into the final database. Once a project starts, the data is used to create a spreadsheet that can be used to track progress.

• Record URL:
  http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist07/news/publications/journal/Journal%20Jan_Feb%202002.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • January-February 2002
• Corporate Authors:

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Authors:
  • Knox, P
• Publication Date: 2002-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 18-21
• Serial:
  • California Department of Transportation Journal
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: California Department of Transportation
  • Serial URL: http://www.dot.ca.gov/journal.htm

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridge design; Data collection; Data compression; Software
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Bridges and other structures; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00930159
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Aug 30 2002 12:00AM