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Georgia DOT's Implementation of BridgeWatch
Transportation professionals are charged with the formidable task of protecting, maintaining, and replacing bridges in a cost-effective manner to allow safe passage by over 230 million road and rail vehicles daily and commercial vehicles transporting over $8.4 trillion of cargo annually. A bridge failure is costly in terms of life and property. However, many failures can be prevented, delayed, or mitigated through monitoring, early warning, and well-coordinated emergency response protocols. During the fall of 2008, the Georgia Department of Transportation ("GDOT") was looking for a way to monitor their scour-critical bridge population and incorporate this effort into the development of plans-of-action ("POA") for seventy-six (76) scour-critical bridges. The monitoring system they chose is a web-based software system known as BridgeWatch®. The system utilizes patented technology that collects and processes real-time data to provide automated early warning to engineers of any potentially-destructive environmental conditions in and around their structures so they can effectively respond to protect life and property. GDOT engineers were given the ability to populate their BridgeWatch system with inventory data, personnel contact information, and structure specific thresholds, to monitor for environmental conditions such as accumulated precipitation, increased river flows, hurricane induced tidal surge, and seismic events. The system enables owners and operators to make informed decisions about public safety, in real-time, and effectively dispatch emergency personnel, safety inspectors and maintenance workers, prior to flooding or other destructive environmental events which adversely affect bridges.
Georgia DOT's Implementation of BridgeWatch
Transportation professionals are charged with the formidable task of protecting, maintaining, and replacing bridges in a cost-effective manner to allow safe passage by over 230 million road and rail vehicles daily and commercial vehicles transporting over $8.4 trillion of cargo annually. A bridge failure is costly in terms of life and property. However, many failures can be prevented, delayed, or mitigated through monitoring, early warning, and well-coordinated emergency response protocols. During the fall of 2008, the Georgia Department of Transportation ("GDOT") was looking for a way to monitor their scour-critical bridge population and incorporate this effort into the development of plans-of-action ("POA") for seventy-six (76) scour-critical bridges. The monitoring system they chose is a web-based software system known as BridgeWatch®. The system utilizes patented technology that collects and processes real-time data to provide automated early warning to engineers of any potentially-destructive environmental conditions in and around their structures so they can effectively respond to protect life and property. GDOT engineers were given the ability to populate their BridgeWatch system with inventory data, personnel contact information, and structure specific thresholds, to monitor for environmental conditions such as accumulated precipitation, increased river flows, hurricane induced tidal surge, and seismic events. The system enables owners and operators to make informed decisions about public safety, in real-time, and effectively dispatch emergency personnel, safety inspectors and maintenance workers, prior to flooding or other destructive environmental events which adversely affect bridges.
Georgia DOT's Implementation of BridgeWatch
Scannell, Joseph P. (author) / Baribault, Marc K. (author)
International Conference on Scour and Erosion (ICSE-5) 2010 ; 2010 ; San Francisco, California, United States
Scour and Erosion ; 924-930
2010-10-29
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
Georgia DOT's Implementation of BridgeWatch
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