{"id":700,"date":"2017-02-15T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/02\/15\/procurement-trend-3-benefits-of-drone-inspections-of-bridges-via-land-of-10000-lakes-dot\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:10:00","slug":"procurement-trend-3-benefits-of-drone-inspections-of-bridges-via-land-of-10000-lakes-dot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/procurement-trend-3-benefits-of-drone-inspections-of-bridges-via-land-of-10000-lakes-dot\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurement Trend. 3 Benefits of Drone Inspections of Bridges via Land of 10,000 Lakes DOT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State:<\/strong>\u00a0Michigan<\/p>\n<p><strong>The contract concerning drone inspections of bridges:\u00a0<\/strong>Beginning with a study to support the goals of saving state funds and getting more through safety inspections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The benefits of using drones to inspect bridges:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>see the bridge in real time<\/li>\n<li>detect temperature changes in the concrete<\/li>\n<li>the ability to inspect portions of bridges that are difficult to access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The cost of traditional machinery bridge inspections:<\/strong>\u00a0$675,000 +\u00a0traffic problems<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cost of a drone bridge inspection:<\/strong>\u00a0$40,000 + no traffic backups<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentworld.com\/minnesota-dot-testing-drones-for-bridge-inspections\/\">Equipment World |\u00a0<strong>Minnesota DOT testing drones for bridge inspections<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The State:<\/strong>\u00a0Michigan<\/p>\n<p><strong>The contract concerning drone inspections of bridges:\u00a0<\/strong>Beginning with a study to support the goals of saving state funds and getting more through safety inspections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The benefits of using drones to inspect bridges:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>see the bridge in real time<\/li>\n<li>detect temperature changes in the concrete<\/li>\n<li>the ability to inspect portions of bridges that are difficult to access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The cost of traditional machinery bridge inspections:<\/strong>\u00a0$675,000 +\u00a0traffic problems<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cost of a drone bridge\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulatory-trend","category-transportation-safety","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}