Innovative Approach for Pavement Runoff Characterization
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 31, Issue 5
Abstract
Knowing the flow field characteristics of pavement rainfall runoff is essential for highway drainage design and skid management. This paper presents an innovative approach to characterize the flow field properties of pavement rainfall runoff under natural rainfall events. The approach is based on two-dimensional shallow water equations with porosity to encounter pavement topography, including highway alignment, the obstructive effect of pavement surface macrotexture, and side drainage types. The model is verified with a classical dam-breaking model, and compared well with field monitoring results of water film thickness on existing expressway pavement. The capabilities of the approach to predict the flow field characteristics in temporal and spatial dimension make it useful in highway geometry and drainage design, and can also be potentially incorporated into skid and hydroplaning risk management.
Get full access to this article
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant No. 51478114) and the Department of Transportation of Liaoning Province for financial support.
References
AASHTO. (2001). “A policy on geometric design of highways and streets.” Washington, DC.
Akan, A. O. (1986). “Drainage of pavements under non-uniform rainfall.” J. Transp. Eng., 172–183.
Anderson, D. A., Huebner, R. S., Reed, J. R., Warner, J. C., and Henry, J. J. (1998). “Improved surface drainage of pavements.”, Larson Transportation Institute, College Park, PA.
Bladé, E., Gómez-Valentín, M., Dolz, J., Aragón-Hernández, J. L., Corestein, G., and Sánchez-Juny, M. (2012). “Integration of 1D and 2D finite volume schemes for computations of water flow in natural channels.” Adv. Water Res., 42(3), 17–29.
Charbeneau, R. J., Jeong, J., and Barrett, M. E. (2009). “Physical modeling of sheet flow on rough impervious surfaces.” J. Hydraul. Eng., 487–494.
Chen, X., Geng, Y., Jiang, Q., Huang, X., and Ma, Y. (2015). “Improving surface drainage of super-wide pavements, interim report.” School of Transportation, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, Jiangsu, China (in Chinese).
Cristina, C., and Sansalone, J. (2003). “Kinematic wave model of urban pavement rainfall-runoff subject to traffic loadings.” J. Environ. Eng., 629–636.
Escarameia, M., Gasowski, Y., May, R. W. P., and Bergamini, L. (2006). “Estimation of runoff depths on paved areas.” Urban Water J., 3(4), 185–197.
Gunaratne, M., et al. (2012). “Hydroplaning on multi lane facilities.”, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
Jeong, J. (2008). “A hydrodynamic diffusion wave model for storm-water runoff on highway surfaces at superelevation transitions.” Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX.
Jeong, J., and Charbeneau, R. (2010). “Diffusion wave model for simulating storm-water runoff on highway pavement surfaces at superelevation transition.” J. Hydraul. Eng., 770–778.
Ji, T., Huang, X., Liu, Q., and Tang, G. (2004). “Prediction model of rain water depth on road surface.” J. Traffic Transp. Eng., 4(3), 1–3.
Ji, T. J. (2004). “The influence of rain on the tyre-road adhesion coefficient.” Ph.D. thesis, School of Transportation, Southeast Univ., Nanjing, Jiangsu, China.
MOTPRC (Ministry of Transport of the People’s Republic of China). (2012). “Specifications for drainage design of highway.”, China Communication Press, Beijing, 39–55.
Ong, G. P., and Fwa, T. F. (2007). “Study of factors influencing vehicle hydroplaning speed.” J. East. Asia Soc. Transp. Stud., 7, 1958–1972.
Philipp, S., Marko, S., Sandra, L., and Johannes, P. (2012). “Numerical modeling of water levels on pavements under extreme rainfall.” J. Transp. Eng., 732–740.
Randall, J. C., Jaehak, J., and Michael, E. B. (2009). “Physical modeling of sheet flow on rough impervious surfaces.” J. Hydraul. Eng., 135(6), 487–494.
Steffen, R. H. (2008). “Simulationsmodell zum wasserabfluss und aquaplaning-verhalten auf Fahrbahnoberflaechen.” Ph.D. thesis, Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany (in German).
Tan, W. Y. (1998). Computational shallow water hydrodynamics—The application of finite volume method, Tsinghua University Press, Beijing (in Chinese).
Wang, Z. L., and Geng, Y. F. (2013). “2-D Shallow water equations with porosity and their numerical scheme on unstructured grids.” Water Sci. Eng., 6(1), 91–105.
William, J., and Stuart, C. W. (2000). “Numerical techniques for overland flow from pavement: Applied modeling of urban water systems.” Monograph series on modeling storm-water impacts, Guelph, ON, Canada, 77–111.
Wolff, A. (2013). “Simulation of pavement surface runoff using the depth-averaged shallow water equations.” Ph.D. thesis, Universitaet Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.
Yager, T., Gallaway, B., Ivey, D. L., and John, M. M. (2009). “Water accumulations, influence of roadway surface discontinuities on safety: State of the art report.” Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, 51–60.
Zhou, Q. (2013). “Study on the theoretical calculation of the thickness of water film on road surface and its effect on the pavement skid resistance condition.” Nanjing Forensic Univ., Nanjing, Jiangsu, China (in Chinese).
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 31 • Issue 5 • October 2017
Copyright
©2017 American Society of Civil Engineers.
History
Received: Apr 27, 2016
Accepted: Jan 13, 2017
Published online: Mar 24, 2017
Discussion open until: Aug 24, 2017
Published in print: Oct 1, 2017
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Citations
Download citation
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.