Optimal Location of Best Management Practices for Flood Mitigation in Urban Drainage Systems

Abstract

The present work presents a bi-objective optimization methodology, which is aimed at simultaneously minimizing the total installation costs of management systems as well as urban flooding, as a tool to be conveniently adopted as part of a decision support system to help identify the optimal location of best management practices (BMPs). For each sub-catchment present in an urban drainage system, the decision variables include the rate of impervious areas to be used for BMP installation. The performance of the urban drainage system following optimal BMP installation is tested against climate change scenarios obtained from a real case study conducted in the industrial area of Brescia; the numerical model of this study can be obtained via the EPASWMM software.

Keywords

• urban drainage
• flooding
• overflows
• resilience
• BMPs
• climate change