Assessing the Use of Dual-drainage Modeling to Determine the Effects of Green Stormwater Infrastructure on Roadway Flooding and Traffic Performance

Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is increasingly used to reduce stormwater input to the subsurface stormwater network. This work investigated how GSI interacts with surface runoff and stormwater structures to affect the spatial extent and distribution of roadway flooding and subsequent effects on the performance of the traffic system using a dual-drainage model. The model simulated roadway flooding using PCSWMM (Personal Computer Stormwater Management Model) in Harvard Gulch, Denver, Colorado, and was then used in a microscopic traffic simulation using the Simulation of Urban Mobility Model (SUMO). The authors examined the effect of converting between 1% and 5% of directly connected impervious area (DCIA) to bioretention GSI on roadway flooding. The results showed that even for 1% of DCIA converted to GSI, the extent and mean depth of roadway flooding was reduced. Increasing GSI conversion further reduced roadway flooding depth and extent, although with diminishing returns per additional percentage of DCIA converted to GSI. Reduced roadway flooding led to increased average vehicle speeds and decreased percentage of roads impacted by flooding and total travel time. Detailed dual-drainage modeling (modeling of both stormwater pipe networks and overland flow) has the potential to better predict what GSI strategies will mitigate roadway flooding.

• Record URL:
  https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/details.php?id=1075
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Colorado State University, Fort Collins

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Fort Collins, CO  United States  80525

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Bhaskar, A S
  • Chen, S
  • Knight, K L
  • Hou, G
• Publication Date: 2022-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 38p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drainage; Floods; Highways; Runoff; Traffic simulation
• Geographic Terms: Denver (Colorado)
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01849111
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC-22-454
• Contract Numbers: MPC-568
• Files: UTC, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Jun 22 2022 5:18PM