- Source: List of longest suspension bridge spans of main span between 500 to 1000 meters
Completed suspension bridges
This list includes only completed suspension bridges that carry automobiles or trains that are between 500 m (1,600 ft) to 1,000 m (3,300 ft) long in main span. It does not include cable-stayed bridges, footbridges, or pipeline bridges.
Bridges under construction
Notes
References
Note: Some of the information posted on the following sites may differ from that above. As of 21 February 2006, the sites were out of date or inaccurate as noted in parentheses
Denenberg, David, Bridgemeister.com (an extensive inventory of more than 8,400 suspension bridges)
Janberg, Nicolas, Suspension bridges, Structurae.de (an extensive database of structures including many suspension bridges)
Durkee, Jackson, "World's Longest Bridge Spans", National Steel Bridge Alliance, 24 May 1999 (out of date)
The World's Greatest Bridges, Archive.org copy of The Bridge over the Strait of Messina website (out of date and other errors)
List of longest spans, Pub Quiz Help (includes bridges that have not yet been completed)
Steel bridges in the world, and other bridge statistics, The Swedish Institute of Steel Construction, March 2003 (out of date)
Virola, Eur Ing Juhani, Two Millennia - Two Long-Span Suspension Bridges, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, ATSE Focus No 124, November/December 2002 (revised information up to date as of 2005)
Virola, Eur Ing Juhani, World's Longest Bridge Spans Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine Laboratory of Bridge Engineering (LBE), Helsinki University of Technology (includes bridges that have not yet been completed)
Further reading
Podolny, Walter Jr.; Goodyear, David (2006). "Cable-suspended bridges". In Roger L. Brockenbrough (ed.). Structural steel designer's handbook : AISC, AASHTO, AISI, ASTM, AREMA, and ASCE-07 design standards (4 ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. pp. 15.13–15.16. ISBN 0071432183.—includes a list of major suspension bridges by length
External links
(in Japanese) Progress of Center Span on Long-Span Bridges Archived 10 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine at the Honshū—Shikoku Bridge Expressway Co.