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Chapter 6 - Glossary of Terms in Highway Bridge Maintenance
Pages 76-83

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... The BR-87 and BR-87A forms provide for a collection of bridge data to be used for producing various analytical and statistical C H A P T E R 6 Glossary of Terms in Highway Bridge Maintenance
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... : The District, County, and Roadway Services County Work Plans identify the current conditions, 3 Year District Maintenance OPI Goals, Preventive Maintenance Goals, available resources, level of effort, projected conditions, costs, and narrative summary for the highway system in each District and respective Counties. Each CWP consists of an Available Resources, Maintenance OPI, Pavement Engineering, and Preventive Maintenance Category (Ohio)
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... They include the traveling public, taxpayer, public entity, public official, or internal entities. In modern maintenance management practices, customer input is the driving force for setting performance targets and measuring results (AASHTO)
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... A maintenance activity may be any physical work performed on the transportation assets, or may be an administrative, support, engineering, or customer service activity. Maintenance activities are usually assigned an activity code for work reporting and tracking (AASHTO)
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... The District Multi-Year Work Plans are a subset of this long-term plan. The goal of the District Multi-Year Work Plan is to develop a fiscally constrained work program that assures safe, reliable, efficient, and accessible, travel conditions, while maintaining bridge and pavement assets at agreed upon performance levels (Ohio)
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... . Office Of Structural Engineering: Structural Engineering is a section of Central Office Highway Operations and provides ODOT districts with standards, policy, procedures, training, design resources, data, and research to allow them to continually monitor and improve the quality of ODOT's bridge inventory.
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... The category requires specific maintenance with specific cycles for each identified maintenance activity. The activities encompass traffic control, vegetation management, surface cleaning, underdrain cleaning, and bridge preventive maintenance (Ohio)
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... Work activities are conducted similar to routine maintenance activities except that work is unanticipated and poses imminent danger to the existing structures or traveling public. In cases of imminent danger, work will be only to repair existing structures, move obstructions, restore banks, protect property, or protect fish resources, to the serviceable function of its original design.
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Key Terms

  • maintenance activity
  • state highway
  • traffic control
  • maintenance activities
  • central office

  • bridge maintenance
  • county work
  • work program
  • key route
  • traveling public

  • highway maintenance
  • annual work
  • bridge inventory
  • pavement management
  • program activity

  • performance targets
  • maintenance management
  • highway bridge
  • work plan
  • federal highway

  • existing roadway
  • customer input
  • structure information
  • customer service
  • inventory route

  • quality survey
  • grade separation
  • isis database
  • reactive maintenance
  • preventive maintenance


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