Data Exchange Platform for Bridge Disaster Prevention Using Intelligent Agent

Due to the location and environment of Taiwan, the frequency of nature disaster is high and the caused damages to the human life, properties and transportation facilities are serious. Considering the disaster prevention of bridge structures caused by earthquake, scour, debris flow, corrosion and senescence, literatures involving the developed bridge management information systems and the bridge disaster prevention, alert and prediction systems are collected. This research establishes the bridge disaster emergency procedure for various disasters. Bridge management unit can follow the disaster prevention / action process to reduce the loss caused by nature disasters. To exchange data between different systems, this research establishes a data exchange platform. The software agent including data retrieval, selection, identification and store is developed to automatically exchange data to / from TBMS (Taiwan Bridge Management System), TELES (Taiwan Earthquake Loss Estimation System), Central Weather Bureau, Water Resources Agency, the Soil and Water Conservation Bureau Council of Agriculture. When disasters occur, the system will be activated and used to collect different information from various resources by agent software to identify the damage conditions of bridges. Also, the appropriate actions provided by the system can assist bridge managers for decision-making.