A 202-meter-long footbridge constructed over a railway line

The new footbridge, designed by SUDOP PRAHA, a.s., represents an out-of-level connection of the pedestrian road in K Dráze Street (Plzeň-Bručná) and Na Lipce Street (Plzeň-Koterov). The footbridge bridges two transport corridors – the I/20 road and four tracks of the railway line, which includes the railway line Gmünd – České Budějovice – Plzeň. The length of the bridge is 154 m with a total length of 202 m.

For the required crossing profile over the road and the electrified railway line, it was necessary to design the descent of the footbridge from a height of approx. 7.5 m above the terrain after crossing the railway down to the Koter abutment with an acceptable longitudinal slope. This problem was solved by a curved ramp. The footbridge was designed for pedestrian loading with the LM4 loading model, i.e., 5kN/m2, reduced with respect to the length of the loaded footbridge in accordance with ČSN EN 1991-2. The clear width of the footbridge is designed to be 3.0 m.

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