Inventory and Inspection Guideline for Railway Bridges
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Due to the substantial role of bridges in transportation network and in accordance with the
limited fund for bridge management, remedial strategies have to be prioritized. A
conservative bridge assessment will result in unnecessary actions, such as costly bridge
strengthening or repairs. On the other hand, negligence and delayed action of bridge
maintenance may lead to heavy future costs or degraded assets. The accuracy of decisions
developed by any manager or bridge engineer relies on the accuracy of the bridge assessment
which emanates from well-established bridge Inventory and Inspection.
A high degree of accurate Bridge Database is only maintained if the bridge Inventory and
Inspection is carried out using well-established guideline. If bridge Inventory and Inspection
tasks are not performed for all bridges without having a well-established guideline, frequent
collapse would occur at the same time in many parts of the county and would provoke social
and political chaos. As a new government corporate the Ethiopian Railway Corporation needs
to start the bridge asset management by inventory and inspecting of its new assets. To
perform this, sustainability of well-established bridge Inventory and Inspection guideline
should be established. Therefore; the main goal of this research is study preparation of
Inventory and Inspection Guideline for Railway Bridges in Ethiopia by adapting the practice
in similar sources. In this research Inventory and Inspection Guideline for Ethiopian railway
bridges is studied from the experience of different countries, bridges administration
authorities ERA, AACRA, manuals and others relevant sources, and a seed for Rail Bridge
Management System established.
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Railway Bridges, Inventory, Inspection, Guideline