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Development on Homeland and Overseas Bridge Management Systems
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors examined the development of national and international bridge management systems, learning from the latest bridge management system and therefore building ourselves' scientific and effective bridge management System is an important task of our bridge field.
Abstract: There are successful bridge management systems abroadHowever,they can not are adopted directly in China because there are differences in management systems and maintenance regulations between homeland and overseas Domestic bridge management systems are in an exploring phaseThus,examining development of national and abroad bridge management systems,learning from the latest bridge management systems and therefore building ourselves' scientific and effective bridge management systems is an important task of our bridge field
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TL;DR: In this paper, a comparison between the USA and China concerning the ability to implement foreign bridge management technology by analysing the regulatory practices in the bridge management process and the bridges in each country is presented.
Abstract: The bridges of the USA and China are inventoried, inspected and maintained by governmental agencies, promoting efficient national infrastructure and safety through the development of bridge management technology. This paper provides a brief comparison between the USA and China concerning the ability to implement foreign bridge management technology by analysing the regulatory practices in the bridge management process and the bridge management systems in each country. The goal is to investigate possible synergistic approaches to enhance bridge monitoring through comparing the two largest bridge inventories in the world.
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...Although some cities have their own BMSs (Zhang, Yang, Hu, Du, & Sun, 1999), the national bridges in China’s infrastructure are mostly managed by the Chinese Bridge Management System (CBMS), developed by the MOT (Liang & Cao, 2007)....
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