Monitoring on federal highways bridges: current situation, future opportunities & digital implementation

Abstract Monitoring on road bridges in Germany is rare and mostly designed to deal with existing damages deficits, as a survey of the Federal Ministry Digital Transport has shown 2020. Other use cases are monitoring support structural inspection, monitor significant structures, or impact monitoring. The objectives, benefits examples various described present article. results most useful when they combined other information about structure, such repair measures damage development, common data environment. Twin possibility merge und represents highest expression digital implementation. Shadow an automatic link from physical object manual preliminary stage Twin. implementation already taking place at demonstrator structure BASt. basis for parametric BIM model. In selected application, available was compiled this bridge visualized