3.1 Types of Actions and Limit State Design3.2 Permanent Actions3.3 Highway Traffic Loading – Vertical Forces3.4 Braking, Acceleration and Centrifugal Forces in Highway Bridges3.5 Actions on Footways or Cycle Tracks and Parapets, of Highway Bridges3.6 Actions for Abutments and Walls Adjacent to Highway Bridges3.7 Traffic Loads for Railway Bridges3.8 Braking, Acceleration and Centrifugal Forces in Railway Bridges: Nosing Forces3.9 Actions on Maintenance Walkways and Earth Pressure Effects for Railway Bridges3.10 Dynamic Load Effects3.11 Wind Actions and Aerodynamic Stability of Bridges3.12 Hydrodynamic Actions3.13 Thermal Actions and Thermal Effects3.14 Shrinkage, Creep and Relaxation in Concrete Bridges3.15 Actions Due to Imposed Deformations. Differential Settlements3.16 Actions Due to Friction in Bridge Bearings3.17 Seismic Actions3.18 Accidental Actions3.19 Actions During Construction3.20 Basic Criteria for Bridge DesignReferences