Estimating bridge criticality due to extreme traffic loads in highway networks

Around the world, an increasing amount of bridge infrastructure is ageing. The resources involved in the reassessment of existing assets often exceed available resources and many bridges lack a minimum structural assessment. Therefore, there is a need for comprehensive and quantitative approaches to assess all the assets in the bridge network to...

Corrigendum to “Estimating bridge criticality due to extreme traffic loads in highway networks” [Eng. Struct. vol. 300, 1 February 2024, 117172] (Engineering Structures (2024) 300, (S0141029623015870), (10.1016/j.engstruct.2023.117172))

The authors regret the acknowledgments in the published article are incomplete. The complete acknowledgments are as follows: “This research was supported by the Mexican National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) under project number 2019-000021-01EXTF-00564 CVU 784544. The authors would like to thank Dr. Andrés Antonio Torres...

Structured expert judgment to understand the intrinsic vulnerability of traffic networks

The concept of intrinsic vulnerability of a traffic network is defined for the first time in this paper. Intrinsic vulnerability is the susceptibility to incidents characterised by a probability of occurrence in space and time of difficult estimation, which can result in considerable reduction or loss of the system functionality. Given the...

Understanding the vulnerability of traffic networks by means of structured expert judgment elicitation

There is a lack of consensus in relation to the operationality of important concepts and descriptors of traffic networks such as resilience and vulnerability. With the aim of determining a framework with mathematical sound to objectively define and delimit these concepts, the expert judgment uncertainty quantification has been selected to assess...