Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) constitute an alternative to conventional drainage when managing stormwater in cities, reducing the impact of urbanization by decreasing the amount of runoff generated by a rainfall event. This paper shows the potential benefits of installing different types of SuDS in preventing flooding in comparison with the common urban drainage strategies consistin...

EDITORIAL article Front. Environ. Chem., 07 February 2023Sec. Chemical Treatments Volume 4 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvc.2023.1151859

Owing to overflows from combined sewer pipe systems, water quality of receiving waters, including urban rivers, has become worse year by year. Appropriate countermeasures that can mitigate the overflows, therefore, must be developed promptly. The authors have investigated a distributed simulation model of water quality and stormwater runoff in urban sewer pipe systems. First, a surface routing ...

The paper aims to describe the problem of modelling non-linear dynamic systems using a multiple model representation, also known in fuzzy set literature as Takagi-Sugeno model. The basic principle of this approach is to represent the system as an interpolation of locally valid models. Proposed identification algorithms concern the parameter estimation and the structure determination (local mode...

Nowadays, the increasing use of vehicles is causing contaminated stormwater runoff to drain from roads. The detailed understanding of urban wash-off processes is essential for addressing urban management issues. However, existing modelling approaches are rarely applied for these objectives due to the lack of realistic input data, unsuitability of physical descriptions, and inadequate documentat...