**History of Sustainable Bridge Solutions**

This chapter discusses the concerns of sustainable bridge development. The presented ap‐ proach refers to elements of design, construction and maintenance of bridges with regard to their role in transport and social life—which have been present in bridge construction for a long time and can be easily incorporated into the concept of sustainable bridge construction.

## **Highway Bridge Traffic Loading**

In this chapter, the traditional approaches and recent advances in highway bridge traffic loading are described. These are of great significance for the structural safety assessment of bridges. In fact, it is widely accepted that consideration of site-specific traffic features results in significant savings in maintenance operations.
