Site specific traffic load models for bridge evaluation Modèles de charge de trafic actualisés pour l’évaluation de ponts-routes existants Nachgeführte Verkehrslastmodelle zur Beurteilung bestehender Brücken

Rolf BEZ Research Associate ICOM (Steel Structures) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland Simon Bailey, born in 1963, graduated from Southampton University, UK, in 1984 and joined a firm of consulting engineers in London where he worked on the design, construction, inspection and assessment of structures. Since 1990 he has been working at ICOM and is currently preparing a doctoral thesis on bridge evaluation. Rolf Bez is a graduate of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where he also received his doctorate. Since 1980 he has been working at ICOM, mainly in the field of bridge loading. He is the Swiss National Technical Contact for traffic loads on road bridges for Eurocode 1.