International Conference on Applications of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering (ICASP) (12th : 2015)

Travel time reliability based bridge network maintenance optimization under budget constraint Zhang, Weili; Cao, Miao; Wang, Naiyu

Abstract

This study develops a decision model to assist bridge authorities in determining a preferred maintenance prioritization schedule for a degraded bridge network in a community that optimizes the performance of transportation systems within budgetary constraints at a regional scale. The study utilizes network analysis methods, structural reliability principles and meta-heuristic optimization algorithms to integrate individual descriptive parameters such as bridge capacity rating, condition rating, traffic demand, and location of the bridge, into global objective functions that define the overall network performance and maintenance cost. The performance of the network is measured in terms of travel time reliability between all possible origin/destination (OD) pairs. In addition to the global budgetary constraint, the optimization is also conditioned on local constraints imposed on traffic flow by insufficient load carrying capacity of deficient bridges. Uncertainties in traffic demands, vehicle weights and maintenance costs are also considered in the problem formulation. This decision model is illustrated with a hypothetical bridge network.

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