Mitigation of Flooding-Related Traffic Disruptions with Green Infrastructure Stormwater Management

This project focuses on the mitigation of flooding-related traffic disruptions by implementation of green infrastructure stormwater management. Traffic disruptions can be caused during flooding events in urban areas when the existing stormwater management is not effective at stormwater drainage from roadways. Green infrastructure stormwater management uses infiltration and harvest of stormwater to reduce stormwater volumes. Urban roadway flooding will be modeled under the current conditions, as well as under scenarios of green infrastructure implementation. Then, this project will undertake a probabilistic simulation of the effect of green infrastructure implementation on traffic disruptions in a semi-arid urban area in the Front Range of Colorado. This project will quantify the effectiveness of green infrastructure stormwater management for reducing traffic disruptions.

• Record URL:
  https://www.mountain-plains.org/research/details.php?id=467

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $120000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747108

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Mountain-Plains Consortium

  North Dakota State University
  Fargo, ND  United States  58108
• Project Managers:

  Kline, Robin

• Performing Organizations:

  Colorado State University

  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  Campus Delivery 1372
  Fort Collins, CO  United States  80523
• Principal Investigators:

  Bhaskar, Aditi

  Chen, Suren

• Start Date: 20180627
• Expected Completion Date: 20220731
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
• Source Data: MPC-568

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drainage structures; Floods; Implementation; Infrastructure; Runoff; Simulation; Sustainable development; Traffic; Urban highways
• Geographic Terms: Colorado
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01674851
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Mountain-Plains Consortium
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747108
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jul 6 2018 9:58AM