Abstract
• A rainstorm process design method considering local rainfall patterns. • Impacts of rainfall pattern on vulnerability of road network are discussed. • The coupled model has satisfactory applicability. • Modes II and III are the most dangerous for the road network. Waterlogging events in urban areas are becoming increasingly more frequent, which has led to tremendous economic losses. Urban road networks have also suffered heavy interference and destruction due to this type of disaster, and the precise assessment of road network vulnerability is an effective measure by which to reduce losses. Therefore, in this study, an analytical framework for the assessment of the vulnerability of road networks to urban waterlogging was constructed by using a coupled hydrodynamic model. The rainfall patterns in the study area were detected, and their impacts on vulnerability are discussed. The results show that rainfall events with unimodal, bimodal, and uniform shape patterns respectively account for 68.08%, 31.46%, and 0.47% of the total number of events considered in this study. The coupled hydrodynamic model used in this study is found to have satisfactory applicability for waterlogging simulation. Rainfall with a unimodal shape is found to have the greatest impact on the vulnerability of road networks, while that with a uniform shape has the least. Among the unimodal shapes, Mode II (late peak) and Mode III (middle peak) are the most dangerous.
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