Analyzing Critical Impacting Factors on the Future of Bridges to Support Bridge Planning
Publication: Construction Research Congress 2022
ABSTRACT
There has been an increasing demand for understanding the critical impacting factors that may affect bridge design, construction, and operation in the future. These factors could be from various areas, such as technology advancement (e.g., new construction materials and techniques), climate change, sea level rise, economic shifts, and evolving behaviors of travelers. This paper presents a study that aims to identify the critical impacting factors and analyze how they would impact the bridges in the future. The factors were first identified through a comprehensive literature review and expert interviews. They were then included in a survey to further solicit bridge experts’ opinions on their likelihood of impacts on bridges and trends. This paper focuses on discussing the survey design, implementation, results, and analysis. This research offers a theoretical and empirical understanding of the multifaceted factors that could affect the future of bridges; it could facilitate more proactive policy making by allowing policymakers to account for the impacts of these factors on bridges.
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