2006 Bridge Inventory
FHWA, in consultation with the states, has assigned a sufficiency rating SR to each bridge (20 ft. or more) inventoried. Formula SR rating factors are as outlined in the current Recording and Coding...
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FHWA, in consultation with the states, has assigned a sufficiency rating SR to each bridge (20 ft. or more) inventoried. Formula SR rating factors are as outlined in the current Recording and Coding...
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The Federal Highway Administration, in consultation with the states, has assigned a sufficiency rating, or SR, to each bridge (20 feet or more) that is inventoried. Formula SR rating factors are as...
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Better Bridges: Bridge Inventory 2009 State of Bridges
The Better Roads Bridge Inventory is an exclusive, award-winning annual survey that has been conducted since 1979. Bridge engineers from every state and Washington, D.C., are set a survey with both...
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Better Bridges 2010 Bridge Inventory
The State of Your Bridges Our exclusive survey of bridge conditions in the United States By Tina Grady Barbaccia It’s a case of good news/bad news. Better Roads’ 2010 Annual Bridge Inventory reveals...
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The State of Our Bridges
Our exclusive annual research into bridge conditions in the United States. Over regulated, underfunded and disheartening.” That’s how Brian Olson, bridge replacement engineer with the South Dakota...
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Better Bridges 2012 Bridge Inventory
Getting Better all the Time America’s structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridge count slowly, steadily falling By Tina Grady Barbaccia They aren’t numbers to throw a party for yet,...
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The State of the Nation’s Bridges
Our exclusive survey of bridge conditions in the United States shows that every year the percentage of overall structurally deficient and functionally obsolete bridges slightly improves, but for most...
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More from the Bridge Inventory: Top 5 States with the Best and Worst Bridges
Despite that the nation’s transportation funding system is in great peril as the expiration of the current surface transportation funding bill, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century (MAP-21),...
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70-foot-long bridge survives series of earthquakes
A 70-foot-long, 52-ton bridge was tried and tested by the University of Nevada, Reno’s new Earthquake Engineering Lab. The experiment was to see if the bridge would survive a series of 10 earthquakes –...
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2014 Bridge Inventory Online Exclusive: How the 2014 numbers compare to 2013...
Better Roads published its 2014 Annual Bridge Inventory in the November 2014 print edition. (The digital edition will be uploaded soon so keep checking back for it at www.BetterRoads.com. For a...
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2014 Better Roads Bridge Inventory
Methodology: The Better Roads Bridge Inventory is an exclusive, award-winning annual survey that has been conducted since 1979. Bridge engineers from every state and Washington, D.C., are sent a...
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