ABSTRACT
A common problem among bridge owners/managers is the need to reduce spending while attempting to operate and maintain an increasingly ageing bridge stock. In response to this challenge, the past decade has seen increased interest by bridge owners and managers in the use of probabilistic methods for the assessment and management of their bridges. Probabilistic assessments are usually employed once a deterministic assessment of a structure has deemed it necessary to repair, rehabilitate or replace it. They have been shown to provide signicant cost savings by demonstrating that structures are safe, which would otherwise have been repaired or replaced.
