Trends in the Application of Permeable Pavement as Sustainable Highway Storm Water Management Option for Safe-Use of Roadways

Abstract

Accumulation of storm water on road surfaces and the associated runoff result in environmental pollution problems, negative impact on durability of pavement and safety problems for the travelling public. Permeable pavement has been used to reduce imperviousness of paved surfaces and storm water runoff due to the presence of pores through which water passes into underneath layer of the pavement where the water is collected for treatment prior to discharge into the environment. As a result, permeable pavement is seen as an environmentally sustainable system. Although permeable pavement was initially developed for foot and bicycle traffic, because of sustainability benefits it provides, there is growing interest in advancing the use of permeable pavement in highway storm water management. This article presents trends in the application of permeable pavement in highway storm water management and some associated highway safety benefits.

Application of Permeable Asphalt Pavement Construction in Traffic Areas

“…Vandeniui pralaidi danga -tai draugiška aplinkai danga ir yra tvari paviršinių nuotekų (vandens) tvarkymo strategija. Taikant šią dangą galima sumažinti aplinkos taršą ir eliminuoti saugaus eismo problemas, kurios kyla dėl paviršinių nuotekų (lietaus) kaupimosi ant nelaidžios dangos paviršiaus (Ndon, 2017;Selbig & Buer, 2018).…”

“…Literatūroje išskiriami vandeniui pralaidžių asfalto dangų privalumai (Ndon, 2017 ■ skirtumai nuo įprastos statybos (įrengimo) praktikos; ■ galimas dangos užsikimšimas, todėl turi būti atliekama speciali priežiūra;…”

Field Evaluation of Hydrologic and Water Quality Benefits of Perforated Paving Block Structure (P2BS)

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Reducing Stormwater Runoff from Parking Lot with Permeable Pavement

“…2). The fundamental difference between conventional permeable pavement, here and after called paving block pavement (PBP), and proposed permeable pavement, here and after called permeable paving block pavement (P2BP) is the presence of voids in permeable pavement, including the pavement surface, which reduces imperviousness and allows storm water to infiltrate into and through the pavement [8]. The general structure of P2BP consists of several layers, covering a surface layer of permeable paving concrete, arranged manually on a layer of sand, and a layer of gravel.…”