Bridges are structures that carry pedestrian or vehicular traffic over natural or artificial obstacles, including roads or highways, railroads, and rivers or other bodies of water. Bridges may be classified either by structure, e.g., suspension, truss, arch, etc., by function, e.g., pedestrian, highway, railroad, etc., or by material, e.g., wood, stone, steel, concrete, etc. This guide includes materials on the design and construction of bridges, as well as resources on how to manage, inspect, maintain, repair, rehabilitate, and preserve bridges.
Not intended as a comprehensive bibliography, this compilation is designed--as the name of the series implies--to put the reader "on target." A related guide, TB 08-2, Infrastructure and Public Works, which lists materials on the public infrastructure, its history and development, and proposals for its maintenance and improvement, may also be of interest. This and other recent Tracer Bullets are available online.
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