The steadily growing traffic load has resulted in lots of bridge collapse events over the past
decades, especially for short-to-medium span bridges. This study investigated probabilistic …

Traffic load simulation (TLS) is critical for the design and assessment of long-span bridges.
Traditional methods, such as Monte-Carlo sampling and Cellular Automaton, rely on actual …

Cellular Automaton (CA), an efficient dynamic modeling method that is widely used in traffic
engineering, is newly introduced for traffic load modeling. This modeling method …

Multi-lane factor (MLF) is a crucial component of the traffic load model in design
specifications for bridges. Due to the significant changes in highway freight transportation …

In various efforts to assure safety and serviceability of a bridge structure throughout its
lifetime, it is essential to accurately estimate the traffic load effects. Although traffic loads …

With the steadily growing of global transportation market, the traffic load has increased
dramatically over the past decades, which may develop into a risk source for existing …

Traffic micro-simulation is the newly developed approach for loading calculation of long
span bridges. The approach is quite precise, but computationally expensive to consider the …

The traffic scenarios that may cause extreme load effects are of great importance to the
safety assessment of bridge structures. The traditional simulation method of traffic flow …

The vehicle distribution scenarios on the bridge deck of long-span cable-stayed bridges
leading to extreme responses are critical for ensuring structural safety. Meanwhile, the …

A novel framework for multi-lane factors (MLFs) for bridge traffic loading is proposed in this
work. A general equation of MLF, consisting of a combination coefficient, a lane correction …