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Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle Design and Performance
Volume 5, 2009 - Issue 1: Politics, perception and related social issues of life-cycle cost management for civil infrastructure systems
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Societal and reliability aspects of bridge management in the Netherlands

Leo Klatter Civil Engineering Division, Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, P.O. Box 20.000, 3502, LA, Utrecht, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Ton Vrouwenvelder TNO Building and Construction Research, Delft, The Netherlands; Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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Jan M. van Noortwijk HKV Consultants, Lelystad, The Netherlands; Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Pages 11-24 | Received 03 Jan 2007, Accepted 01 Mar 2007, Published online: 15 Oct 2008
 
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Abstract

The paper describes the decision-theoretic approach that is used for bridge management in the Netherlands to obtain optimal investment and maintenance decisions. First, a societal perspective of bridge management and safety is sketched. Next, the important issues that govern the decision-making are described: technical requirements with an emphasis on structural safety, optimising maintenance to achieve lowest life-cycle costs, and the physical and statistical models of structural behaviour and deterioration processes. Finally, the results are evaluated in a societal perspective.

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