Current traffic simulation approaches analyze vehicle loads and load effects from a statistical
perspective; however, they fail to reproduce the spatiotemporal distribution of bridge loads …

Long-span bridge traffic loading is governed by congestion. Although congestion can take
various forms, most previous studies consider only a queue of vehicles. In this paper, traffic …

Random traffic flow load (TFL) simulation is an important analysis method for bridge design
and safety assessment, and accurate TFL modelling is a prerequisite for high-quality …

Vision-based traffic load monitoring has attracted considerable attention in recent years due
to its promise to enable continuous identification of full-bridge traffic load (FBTL). However …

Long-span suspension bridges experience complex dynamic interactions with stochastic
traffic, which has a critical impact on the design and safety assessment of bridges. In this …

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 …

This paper proposes a novel technique to estimate site-specific characteristic maximum
traffic load effects on the Forth Road suspension Bridge (FRB). Congestion represents a …

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 …

Steady traffic growth may pose a safety hazard to in-service bridges, especially long-span
bridges subjected to the simultaneous presence of multiple heavy-duty trucks. This study …

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 …