Facing the contradiction between increasing maintenance demand and limited financial, as well as smaller social and environmental impacts, the optimisation of bridge maintenance strategies should be carried out. In this paper, the assessment model of four objectives, including the safety performance, economic, social and environmental impacts, in sustainability criteria are proposed. Moreover, a systematic optimisation framework of maintenance strategy of deteriorating bridges considering sustainability criteria and a novel decision-making method are developed, based on fuzzy analytic hierarch...
