This paper describes the development of a database and a website to support the newest version of Low Impact Development Rapid Assessment (LIDRA) model, LIDRA 2.0, a planning level model for assessing the cost-effectiveness of low impact development (LID) and addressing runoff-related problems in urban watersheds. LIDRA 2.0 is a web-based application that generates stochastic precipitation data from local historical data sets using a Markov Chain and bootstrapping method. Precipitation is applied to urban watersheds with parcel and street areas. LID scenarios and associated adoption and repaving rates are then used to perform multiple 30 year simulations, during which the difference in runoff is calculated using a water balance. The application needs to store parcel and street specifications and also offer a management interface, both of which must be accessible through the internet. The results of this are: an efficient tool to support LIDRA in terms of storage, retrieval and analysis of data and an integrated web application which allows users an easier way to input data and greatly reduce the time it takes to manage simulation modules via use of the graphical result interfaces that show the results produced. The technical underpinnings of this tool are highlighted using a small example.
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April 16 2013
Development of a web application for Low Impact Development Rapid Assessment (LIDRA)
Miguel Aguayo;
Miguel Aguayo
1Boise State University, Dept of Geosciences, 1910 University Drive, Boise, Idaho 83725, USA
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Ziwen Yu;
Ziwen Yu
3Drexel University, Dept of Civil Engrg, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Michael Piasecki;
2City College New York Dept of Civil Engrg, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY 10031, USA
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Franco Montalto
Franco Montalto
3Drexel University, Dept of Civil Engrg, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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Journal of Hydroinformatics (2013) 15 (4): 1276–1295.
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Received:
June 15 2011
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February 18 2013
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Miguel Aguayo, Ziwen Yu, Michael Piasecki, Franco Montalto; Development of a web application for Low Impact Development Rapid Assessment (LIDRA). Journal of Hydroinformatics 1 October 2013; 15 (4): 1276–1295. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2013.080
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