Spatial Sustainability Assessment of Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Surface Transportation Planning
This project analyses the potential impact that green infrastructure could have on surface transportation planning.
Significance:
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) regulates that transportation authorities are responsible for managing the stormwater runoff that carries pollutants from the land adjacent to road transportation systems. Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is a stormwater management approach with many economic and human health benefits. However, implementation and analysis of GSI at system level or urban watershed scale is generally lacking. As Roy et al. (2008) pointed out that “sustainable urban stormwater management must be planned and implemented at the watershed scale,” a framework is needed to design and evaluate the integration of GSI in transportations planning at system level. The overall goal of the proposed project is to develop a modeling framework integrating hydrologic simulation, water quality modeling, life cycle assessment (LCA) and cost analysis (LCCA) that can be used for design and planning for surface transportation with the spatial implementation of GSI.
Current Objectives:
Completed Objectives:
Products and Publications:
Contact Us:
For inquiries on this project, contact Xiaofan "Caleb" Xu: xiaofanxu<a>usf.edu
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) regulates that transportation authorities are responsible for managing the stormwater runoff that carries pollutants from the land adjacent to road transportation systems. Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) is a stormwater management approach with many economic and human health benefits. However, implementation and analysis of GSI at system level or urban watershed scale is generally lacking. As Roy et al. (2008) pointed out that “sustainable urban stormwater management must be planned and implemented at the watershed scale,” a framework is needed to design and evaluate the integration of GSI in transportations planning at system level. The overall goal of the proposed project is to develop a modeling framework integrating hydrologic simulation, water quality modeling, life cycle assessment (LCA) and cost analysis (LCCA) that can be used for design and planning for surface transportation with the spatial implementation of GSI.
Current Objectives:
- Developing a spatial optimization model for GSI implementation based on the integrated LCA-LCCA-optimization framework.
Completed Objectives:
- Developed a method for constructing an inventory of the implemented GSI using Tampa as a case study area;
- Integrated hydrologic modeling with water quality modeling for scenario analysis of GSI implementation at watershed scale.
Products and Publications:
- Zhang, Q., Lu, Q., Xu, X., & Schreiber, D. (2019). Spatial Sustainability Assessment of Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Surface Transportation Planning, Phase II, Final Report.
- Xu, X., Schreiber, D.S.P., Lu, Q., & Zhang, Q. (2018). "A GIS-based framework creating green stormwater infrastructure inventory relevant to surface transportation planning". Sustainability, 10, 4710.
- Zhang, Q., Lu, Q., Kwon, C., Xu, X., & Schreiber, D. (2018). Spatial Sustainability Assessment of Green Stormwater Infrastructure for Surface Transportation Planning, Phase I, Final Report.
Contact Us:
For inquiries on this project, contact Xiaofan "Caleb" Xu: xiaofanxu<a>usf.edu