Multi-stage planning of LID-GREI urban drainage systems in response to land-use changes

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 859; no. Pt 1; p. 160214
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yu, Wang, Mo, Zhang, Dongqing, Lu, Zhongming, Bakhshipour, Amin E., Liu, Ming, Jiang, Zhiyu, Li, Jianjun, Tan, Soon Keat
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 10.02.2023
• Subjects: Acclimatization; Adaptation pathway; Hydrology; Land-use; Low impact development; Multi-stage planning; Reproducibility of Results; Resilience; Stormwater management; Low impact development; Multi-stage planning; Land-use; Stormwater management; Adaptation pathway; Resilience
• ISSN: 0048-9697; 1879-1026
• DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160214

Long-term planning of urban drainage systems aimed at maintaining the sustainability of urban hydrology remains challenging. In this study, an innovative multi-stage planning framework involving two adaptation pathways for optimizing hybrid low impact development and grey infrastructure (LID-GREI) layouts in opposing chronological orders was explored. The Forward Planning and Backward Planning are adaptation pathways to increase LID in chronological order based on the initial development stage of an urban built-up area and reduce LID in reverse chronological order based on the final development stage, respectively. Two resilience indicators, which considered potential risk scenarios of extreme storms and pipeline failures, were used to evaluate the performance of optimized layouts when land-use changed and evolved over time. Compared these two pathways, Forward Planning made the optimized layouts more economical and resilient in most risk scenarios when land-use changed, while the layouts optimized by Backward Planning showed higher resilience only in the initial stage. Furthermore, a decentralized scheme in Forward Planning was chosen as the optimal solution when taking costs, reliability, resilience, and land-use changes into an overall consideration. Nevertheless, this kind of reverse optimization order offers a novel exploration in planning pathways for discovering the alternative optimization schemes. More comprehensive solutions can be provided to decision-makers. The findings will shed a light on the exploration of optimized layouts in terms of spatial configuration and resilience performance in response to land-use changes. This framework can be used to support long-term investment and planning in urban drainage systems for sustainable stormwater management. [Display omitted] •Multi-stage planning is conducted for optimizing sustainable urban drainage systems.•Two adaptation pathways with opposing optimization chronological orders are explored.•Life cycle cost, reliability, resilience, and degree of decentralization are considered.•In most scenarios, optimized layouts from Forward Planning are more cost-resilient.•A trade-off solution in response to land-use changes and multiple risks is provided.