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The Impact of Uncertainty Factors on Optimal Sizing and Costs of Low-Impact Development: a Case Study from Beijing, China

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The facility allocation optimization of Low-impact development (LID) optimization has been used widely to prevent and tackle urban storm water pollution. However, uncertainties existing in nature and human society would influence the size and total cost of LID. To study the influence of the uncertainties on LID optimization allocation, the research develops the model of LID optimization allocation under uncertainty. The principle of the model is establishing primarily the LID optimization model based on certain numbers and identifying the uncertainties. Hence, the model integrates the uncertainty programming, including interval programming, fuzzy programming, stochastic programming, chance constraint programming (CCP) and scenario programming. The model of LID optimization allocation under uncertainty is established with the conditions. The developed uncertainty model tackles multiple types of uncertainties, and the results of the model are in the interval form in multiple scenarios. The model analyses the effects of uncertainties on the size and total cost of LID in this way. The study shows that the uncertainties in rainfall, infiltration rate, release coefficient, funds and unit price all have a significant influence on the size and total cost of LID when these uncertainty factors overlay. A higher violation probability of CCP corresponding to LID sizing results to a wider interval number of the corresponding uncertainty. The developed method of the study is universal, and the method could be extended to other cases of LID optimization allocation to speculate the influence of uncertainties.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge financial supports for this research from projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41601581) and Science Technology Plan Project for Construction Industry of Anhui Province (Grant No. 2011YF-32) and Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. 8172015).

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  1. Department of Urban and Rural Planning, College of Architecture and Art, Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, 230601, China

    Jinjin Gu, Quan Zhang & Dazhi Gu

  2. School of Science, Anhui Agricultural University, Hefei, 230036, China

    Qingguo Zhang

  3. College of Resource, Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China

    Xiao Pu

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Gu, J., Zhang, Q., Gu, D. et al. The Impact of Uncertainty Factors on Optimal Sizing and Costs of Low-Impact Development: a Case Study from Beijing, China. Water Resour Manage 32, 4217–4238 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11269-018-2040-3

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