Framework for a national database system for maintenance actions on highway bridges
By: George Hearn ... [et al.].
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board; National Cooperative Highway Research Program; American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; United States. Federal Highway Administration
Series: NCHRP report -- 668; Report (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) -- 668.
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
ISBN-13: 9780309155243
Subjects: Highway bridges; Bridges; Maintenance and repair; Databases
Description: TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 668: Framework for a National Database System for Maintenance Actions on Highway Bridges explores a potential framework that provides a uniform format for collecting, reporting, and storing information on bridge maintenance actions for inclusion in a national bridge maintenance database.    Appendixes A through E to NCHRP Report 668 provide detailed information on the different aspects of the research. Appendix A: Information on Bridge Maintenance Programs; Appendix B: National Bridge Maintenance Database Tables; Appendix C: List of Element Level Costs of Maintenance Actions; Appendix D: Examples of National Bridge Maintenance Database Uses; Appendix E: Other National Bridge Maintenance Database Tables--
Notes: At head of title: National Cooperative Highway Research Program.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 84).

Research sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials in cooperation with the Federal Highway Administration NCHRP project 14-15
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Background on Bridge Maintenance Programs at U.S. Department of Transportation; title: Ch. 2. National Bridge Maintenance Database; title: Ch. 3. NBMD Software Applications; title: Ch. 4. Data Sources for NBMD; title: Ch. 5. Element-Level Costs of Maintenance Actions; title: Ch. 6. Glossary of Terms in Highway Bridge Maintenance.