The Dobra Bridge is located between
Karlovac
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and
Novigrad interchanges of the
A1 motorway
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in
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, spanning
Dobra River. It is long, and it comprises four traffic lanes and two emergency lanes.
Construction work on the Dobra Bridge started in 1999 and was completed in 2001.
Cost of the construction work was 57 million
Croatian kuna
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(7.7 million
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). During the construction there was one major incident: on 1 July 2000, three girders plummeted from the main span piers into the river below. The incident did not cause any injury and damage was reported to be marginal.
Description
The deck structure stretches across 13 spans. The main span is long, while the remaining 12 spans are either or long. The bridge is executed as two parallel structures, each wide. The bridge is a reinforced concrete plate gider structure, consisting of pretensioned reinforced concrete prefabricated I-section girders tall and a deep reinforced concrete deck slab. Foundations of the bridge are executed on piles.
Traffic volume
Traffic is regularly counted and reported by
Autocesta Rijeka – Zagreb, operator of the bridge and the part of the A1 motorway where the bridge is located, and published by
Hrvatske ceste
Hrvatske ceste (lit. ''Croatian roads'') is a Croatian state-owned company pursuant to provisions of the Croatian Public Roads Act ( hr, Zakon o javnim cestama enacted by the Parliament of the Republic of Croatia.
The tasks of the company are def ...
.
Substantial variations between annual (
AADT
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) and summer (ASDT) traffic volumes are attributed to the fact that the bridge carries substantial tourist traffic to the
Dalmatia
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Adriatic
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resorts. The traffic count is performed using analysis of motorway toll ticket sales.
See also
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List of bridges by length
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References
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External links
Autocesta Rijeka–Zagreb: Dobra Bridge webcam
Plate girder bridges
Bridges completed in 2001
Toll bridges in Croatia
Buildings and structures in Karlovac County
Transport in Karlovac County