Definitions

Definitions. Definitions. In this chapter: (1) “Construction” includes reconstruction or new construction. (2) “Department” means the Wisconsin department of transportation. (3) “Bridge” means a structure erected over a depression or an obstruction, such as water, a highway, or a railway, and having an opening measured along the center of the roadway of more than 20 feet between the end supports. (4) “Local high-cost bridge” means a bridge which is not on the state trunk highway system or on marked routes of the state trunk highway system designated as connecting highways, and is estimated to cost in excess of $5 million to construct. (5) “Sufficiency rating” means a rating of the condition of a bridge as determined by the department from inventory and inspection data, as set forth in the “Manual for Maintenance Inspection of Bridges.” (6) “Rate score” means a numerical rating of a bridge in which the lower the number, the greater is the need for replacement. In addition to the structural elements of the sufficiency rating, rate score is weighted for average daily traffic (ADT), functional classification and inventory rating.