| Title | A Study of the White Paper of Bridge Policy |
| Dept | Transportation Engineering, Maritime and Air Transport Division |
| Year | 2012 |
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| Summary | Typhoon Sinlaku struck Taiwan in September 2008, causing four bridges run by the Directorate General of Highways to collapse. There were six people reported as having died in the collapse of Ho-Feng Bridge, one of the four collapsed bridges located in Taichung County. Thereafter, people started to become concerned with the suitability of the design code, maintenance strategy, and even the strategy to prevent a bridge from being affected by this kind of tragedy. According to the database of the Taiwan Bridge Management System, the average age of Taiwanese bridges is approaching 20 years; the problem of agedness and deterioration has become an important issue to bridge maintenance departments. Strange weather over the past years has brought stronger wind and heavier rainfall, which, when also including earthquakes, threatens the structural safety of Taiwan’s bridges. Emergent repairs or maintenance can provide only short term solutions. It is the right time to review the existing design codes, construction methods, inspection and monitoring technologies, and the needed budget. This project is aimed to write a “White Paper of Bridge Policy” for the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. In this project, the history of Taiwan’s bridge development, bridge policies in some advanced countries, the current situation and problem for Taiwan’s bridges, setting the goals of bridge policy and determining the short-term, mid-term and long-term strategies to achieve the goals will be collected and studied. Through this project, the clear goals and complete strategies for bridges are hopefully accomplished to provide as guidelines for central government and local governments to follow when dealing with the policies relating to bridges. The ultimate purpose is to keep all the sound, utilizing the limited resources effectively and ensuring public transportation safety. |
| Post date | 2012/06/14 |
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