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Baltimore City, County residents share thoughts on cost of living, impacts of Key Bridge collapse
Baltimore City and County residents shared their thoughts on the cost of living and the impacts of the 2024 Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in their communities in a recent poll by UMBC.
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Hopkins looks at Key Bridge collapse one year later, from the risk of another disaster to disrupted daily lives
Meanwhile, survey data released today by Johns Hopkins found continuing impacts on the daily lives of area residents as a result of the loss of the Key Bridge, which took out a stretch of the ...
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New Hopkins research, NTSB report call into question whether Key Bridge collapse was preventable
Michael Shields, an associate professor of civil and systems engineering at Johns Hopkins University, found that the Key Bridge was one of the top 10 most vulnerable bridges in the country at the ...
WBAL-TV25d
Hopkins research shows Chesapeake Bay Bridge has high risk for ship collisions
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR MICHAEL SHIELDS RECENTLY MET 11 NEWS INVESTIGATES IN THE SHADOW OF WHAT REMAINS OF THE FRANCIS SCOTT KEY BRIDGE. THE PROPOSED NEW BRIDGE IS IS SLIGHTLY WIDER ...
Span of disaster: US bridges face deadly risk of ship ramming, study finds
A year after Baltimore's deadly bridge collapse, a new study shows such incidents remain likely because of larger ships and increased traffic.
NBC Washington25d
Bridge safety under scrutiny a year after Baltimore bridge collapse
Nearly one year after the cargo ship Dali collided with Baltimore’s Key Bridge, experts at Johns Hopkins University warn ships are “highly likely” to strike major bridges in the U.S., with ...
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After Key Bridge collapse, Johns Hopkins study identifies two NJ bridges at risk of collision
After the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last year, a group of researchers from Johns Hopkins University conducted a study to determine which other major U.S. bridges are ...
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Some of the busiest bridges in the U.S. will be hit by ships in our lifetime, Johns Hopkins University study finds
After the collapse of the Key Bridge on March 26, 2024, Johns Hopkins University researchers aimed to determine the chances of a large ship hitting the country's most significant bridges.
HUB26d
Major U.S. bridges at high risk of being struck by ships
"With this investigation we wanted to know if what happened to the Key Bridge was a rare occurrence. Was it an aberration? We found it's really not," said Michael Shields, a Johns Hopkins engineer ...
HUB26d
Student researchers play key role in bridge safety assessment
On March 26, 2024, a container ship accidentally struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, causing a collapse that killed six people. At the time, Michael Shields, an associate professor at ...
Janesville Gazette25d
Hopkins looks at Baltimore´s Key Bridge collapse one year later, from the risk of another disaster to disrupted daily lives
As the one-year anniversary approaches of the shocking collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which tumbled ... struck by the Dali cargo ship, Johns Hopkins has released separate studies ...