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1Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, School of Environment and Energy Engineering, Beijing 100044, China; Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Beijing Climate Change Response Research and Education Center, Beijing 100044, China.
Abstract:
Road waterlogging has become a significant issue in developed cities due to the rapid urbanization in China. It is necessary to accurately identify the risk of waterlogging in urban roads and propose appropriate mitigation measures. This study considered urban waterlogging as a landscape ecological process. The road waterlogging risk was simulated and estimated using the Minimum Cumulative Resistance model under natural drainage conditions. The results indicate that: 1) The Minimum Cumulative Resistance model effectively assesses the waterlogging risk for each road segment. The roads in and around the central city have relatively higher waterlogging risks. The overall length of high-risk roads is 918.7 km, accounting for 31.3 % of the total. 2) There are 448 potential runoff paths and 448 inflow sites. The city's center and its north and south sides are the primary locations of the high-risk runoff paths and the inflow sites. 3) Road waterlogging is significantly more affected by the land-use types of High density residential and Industrial under rainfall intensities of a-year, 2-year, 3-year, and 5-year return periods. And the effects of various land-use types on waterlogging vary with the rainfall intensity. Using landscape ecology theory to analyze the risk of road waterlogging is a novel method to address urban waterlogging issues. This approach provides a more accurate approach to identifying the urban waterlogging risks and can be applied to developed cities suffering from waterlogging to help decision-makers devise the most effective mitigation measures.
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