scholarly journals Evaluation of Urban Flood Control Project –Case Study at Bendung Watershed in Palembang City, Indonesia–

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Rian Dinata
Keyword(s):  
Flood Control ◽  
River Flow ◽  
Small Rivers ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Main River ◽  
Flood Damages ◽  
Cost And Benefit Analysis ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City

Abstract:  Palembang City locates on a lowland where the altitude is between 12 and 30m above sea level. There are many small rivers that flow into a main river, Musi river. Due to the topographical configuration and a seasonal heavy rainfall, those rivers had been overflowed and the city had an inundation disaster. Bendung watershed is one of the nineteen watersheds in Palembang City, and the watershed also experiences the inundation disaster frequently due to the flood caused by a poor river maintenance and drainage system.The local government of Palembang City has applied some flood control projects such as a normalization project to reduce the flood damages. These measures checked the river flow over the dike, but some areas still suffered from the flood damages due to their topography. Based on the current situation, this study evaluates the efficiency of the existing normalization project in this watershed to find a solution that reduces the flood in those areas. Furthermore, this study investigates the feasibility of infiltration-well system to overcome the flood in those areas. The feasibility study includes the cost and benefit analysis to realize the infiltration-well system for easing the inundation problem.Abstrak: Kota Palembang terletak di dataran rendah dengan ketinggian antara 12 sampai 30m di atas permukaan laut. Karena konfigurasi topografi dan curah hujan musiman yang tinggi, sebagian Kota Palembang sangat rentan terhadap genangan dan bencana banjir . DAS Bendung merupakan salah satu dari sembilan belas DAS yang ada di Kota Palembang, dan DAS tersebut juga sering mengalami bencana genangan akibat banjir yang disebabkan oleh sistem drainase yang buruk.Pemerintah Daerah Kota Palembang telah menerapkan beberapa proyek pengendalian banjir seperti proyek normalisasi sungai. Proyek ini cukup sukses mencegah air sungai bendung meluap melewati tanggul sungai tersebut, tetapi beberapa lokasi yang jauh dari sungai bendung masih mengalami genangan karena topografinya. Berdasarkan kondisi ini, studi ini mengevaluasi efisiensi proyek normalisasi di DAS ini untuk mencari solusi yang dapat mengurangi banjir di wilayah tersebut. Selanjutnya studi ini mengkaji kelayakan sistem sumur resapan untuk mengatasi banjir di wilayah tersebut. Studi kelayakan lain meliputi analisis biaya dan manfaat sistem sumur resapan untuk mengatasi masalah genangan. 

Study on Urban Flood Control and Drainage in Beijing

2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2381-2385
Author(s):  
Sen Guo Zhan ◽  
Bao Hui Men ◽  
Jia Jie Wu ◽  
Zheng Da Duan
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Rainfall ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
City Government ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
The City ◽  
New Look

On 21 July 2012, a huge thunderstorm hit Beijing, prompting the city government to act immediately to deal with the emergency. Yet great losses were caused, exposing problems about urban flood control and drainage, and making people take a new look at them. It is not uncommon for a rainfall of such a degree to happen in Asia. Comparatively speaking, however, unlike in Beijing, fewer damages are caused in Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines given the same situation. In this article, therefore, the problems arising after a heavy rainfall and their solutions will be discussed.

scholarly journals Community Satisfaction of the Urban Flood Control System Improvement Project (UFCSI)

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Mohammad Sofyan
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
City Government ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Project Implementation ◽  
Community Satisfaction ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Improvement Project ◽  
Land Clearing ◽  
The City

The purpose of this study is to encourage ownership, responsibility and to develop stakeholders and policy makers for the river normalization program in the pre-construction, construction and post-construction stages. The use of the IPA method to measure community satisfaction in the quadrants on the Importance Performance Matrix map. The results of the study showed that the socialization from the Department of Water and Public Works, when the project was finished, was not in line with community expectations. Flood control projects that have been built, coordination with the contractor at the time of project implementation, socialization from the city government prior to project implementation, socialization from the city government when the project is finished, socialization from the river hall at the time before project implementation, socialization from the river hall at the time the project was completed, dissemination of information from the irrigation service prior to project implementation, and community involvement in project implementation. The process of land clearing, and the price agreement that has been reached. Improved land clearing, and price agreements that have been reached can be reconsidered because their impact on the benefits felt by the community is very small.

Environmental and social follow-up costs of traffic in cities: A case study of the city of Augsburg differentiated by means of transport

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Oebel ◽  
Dr. Tobias Gaugler
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
External Costs ◽  
Environmental Costs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City

<p><strong>Keywords:</strong> External costs, mobility, environmental costs, social costs, monetarization</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study provides a methodology to evaluate the environmental and social costs, which arise from traffic in the German city of Augsburg. Social costs are driven by air pollutants such as nitric oxides or particulate matter, causing health damages. Environmental follow-up costs are driven by the emission of greenhouse gases. Furthermore, approaches for a successful transformation towards a car-free city are shown.</p> <p><strong>Method: </strong>Based on traffic data from the Augsburg Civil Engineering Office, as well as traffic shares from the German Federal Motor Transport Authority, the average emission factors of vehicles on Augsburg´s streets and, subsequently, the total traffic emissions on municipal roads in the city are quantified. The environmental as well as the social consequences are monetarized using the cost rates by Matthey and Bünger (2019) and van Essen et al. (2019). Social costs are additionally assessed using to the DALY approach. Therefore the DALYs lost due to air pollutants are determined and costs per DALY are calculated using the willingness to pay-approach by Cropper and Khanna (2014) and Spengler (2004) additionally to a method by Daroudi et al. (2019) assessing health care expenditures.</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Applying this framework to the case study of Augsburg, results show, that environmental costs of 140.6 Million € arise from traffic in the city per year. These costs are entirely attributable to car traffic (77.7%), truck traffic (19.8%) and motorcycle traffic (1.9%), as public transport in Augsburg is climate neutral. Further, traffic on municipal roads in Augsburg causes a loss of 212.3 DALYs per year, which equals to annual social costs of 27.2 Million €. Cars account for 63.2% of those, trucks for 33.8%, motorcycles for 2.3% and buses for 0.2%, respectively. With a proportion of passenger kilometers of 90.4% from cars, 6.1% from motorcycles and 3.6% from buses, it is evident that cars contribute disproportionately to the environmental and social costs of Augsburg's traffic.</p> <p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The social and economic follow-up costs of transport in the city of Augsburg are currently not borne by the polluter. Their great amount encourages measures, such as reinforcing the use of bicycles or public transport, eventually facilitating a change towards sustainable traffic in Augsburg.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p>Cropper, Maureen; Khanna, Shefali (2014): How Should the World Bank Estimate Air Pollution Damages? In Resources for the Future Discussion Paper, pp. 14–30.</p> <p>Daroudi, Rajabali; Faramarzi, Ahmad; Akbari Sari, Ali; Nahvijou, Azin (2019): Cost Per Daly Averted in Low, Middle and High Income Countries: Evidence from Global Burden of Disease Study to Estimate the Cost Effectiveness Thresholds. In SSRN Journal.</p> <p>Matthey, Astrid; Bünger, Björn (2019): Methodenkonvention 3.0 zur Ermittlung von Umweltkosten – Kostensätze. Edited by Umweltbundesamt. Available online at https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/medien/1410/publikationen/2019-02-11_methodenkonvention-3-0_kostensaetze_korr.pdf, checked on 10/29/2020.</p> <p>Spengler, Hannes (2004): Kompensatorische Lohndifferenziale und der Wert eines statistischen Lebens in Deutschland. In Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung-Journal for Labour Market Research 37 (3), pp. 269–305.</p> <p>van Essen, Huib; van Wijngaarden, Lisanne, Schroten, Arno; Sutter, Daniel; Bieler, Cuno; Maffii, Silvia; Brambilla, Marco et al. (2019): Handbook on the external costs of transport. Edited by CE Delft. Available online at https://ec.europa.eu/transport/sites/transport/files/studies/internalisation-handbook-isbn-978-92-79-96917-1.pdf, checked on 10/29/2020.</p>

An Analysis on the Urban Flood Control

2013 ◽  
Vol 409-410 ◽  
pp. 991-995
Author(s):  
Xiu Yong Yi
Keyword(s):  
Urban Area ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Regional Economics ◽  
Mountain Area ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Engineering Measures ◽  
Diversion Channel ◽  
Engineering Measure ◽  
The City

The urban flood control should be regulated according to the topography, rivers and the regional economics of the city. The regulating reservoirs will be built or rebuilt in the mountain area upstream; the flood would be drawn downstream through the diversion channel. The flood in city would be reduced. The program would to control the rivers in urban area, reduce the elevation of rivers downstream by the non-engineering measure in order to decrease the effect of the backwater. In this paper, we suggested that the program of artificial damaged embankment and the flood compensation foundation as the main measures for flood control in urban area. The safety of the urban area will be ensured by both engineering measures and non-engineering measures from the flood of the rivers.

scholarly journals Prospect of Solid Waste Situation and An Approach of Environmental Management Measure (EMM) Model for Sustainable Solid Waste Management: Case Study of Dhaka City

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
KM Bahauddin ◽  
MH Uddin
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Dhaka City ◽  
Management Measure ◽  
Management Case Study ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City

Environmental Management Measure (EMM) model will be a well-designed approach for sustainable and effective solid waste management in Dhaka city. Environmental Management Measure (EMM) model has three instruments such as economic, regulatory and suasive which proposed in this paper. This paper discusses the situation of solid waste in Dhaka city as well as it offers environmental policy recommendations to concerned authorities including effective instruments to minimize the polluting behavior of individuals and industries and to recover the cost of pollution in the city. To improve solid waste management in Dhaka city, a combination of economic, regulatory and suasive instrument are recommended. The findings of the study will be helpful for policy maker, planner, implementer and other stakeholders towards adopting more effective strategy for management of solid waste in Dhaka city. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jesnr.v5i1.11601 J. Environ. Sci. & Natural Resources, 5(1): 99 - 111, 2012

scholarly journals The cost of building for the future: the reconciliation of sustainable housing issues in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Adam Erlichman.
Keyword(s):  
Urban Context ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Green Housing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Although some green housing elements have become more commonplace in residential renovations in Canada, the undertaking of complete green retrofits is relatively uncommon. This paper explores the barriers to green retrofits, such as affordability and bureaucracy, in the urban context of the City of Toronto. The research was informed by one main case study, one supplementary case study, and six interviews with sustainable housing experts. The research has yielded nine recommendations that are directed towards three levels of government and related public and private housing organizations. These recommendations have been made in the hopes of making sustainable housing more ubiquitous in Toronto.

scholarly journals A MULTI CRITERIA RECOMMENDATION MODEL FOR JAUNT

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W18 ◽  
pp. 879-884
Author(s):  
A. Razavi ◽  
F. Hosseinali
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Automated System ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Board Game ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Mixed Groups ◽  
The City

Abstract. Nowadays, people in most parts of the world always visit, travel and have fun in their cities or other cities, and they spend considerable time and money in their city or in other cities as a tourist. The existence of an intelligent and automated system that can provide the most suitable recreational and cultural offerings at any time and place, with regard to financial capability and time and transport constraints, as well as individual interests and personalization; has always been felt. Recommender systems can be used to suggest suitable recreational options for the user. The main difference between the recommendation model in this study and the previous models is to focus on the short-term planning of a few hours for one day. Previous models were often based on planning a few days a week or days of the month. Also, the cost factor has been considered in this research, which has been less considered in previous models. We used collaborative filtering based on logistic regression to predict whether a type of places is a proper proposition to a user or not. Our case study is about recommending the board game cafés in the city of Kerman, Iran and the result shows that mixed groups between 15 to 30 years old are the best target and our model can predict if board game café is a good suggestion to different users. We used correlation based recommender systems when board game cafes are a proper suggestion for a user and there are at least two options for the user. In case there is no information about the user and his previous rating, popularity based recommender system can be useful. We also used content based recommender systems to give recommendations by having some background information about previous itineraries of a user and his rating to those.

scholarly journals The cost of building for the future: the reconciliation of sustainable housing issues in Toronto

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Adam Erlichman.
Keyword(s):  
Urban Context ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Sustainable Housing ◽  
Green Housing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Private Housing ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City ◽  
Made In

Although some green housing elements have become more commonplace in residential renovations in Canada, the undertaking of complete green retrofits is relatively uncommon. This paper explores the barriers to green retrofits, such as affordability and bureaucracy, in the urban context of the City of Toronto. The research was informed by one main case study, one supplementary case study, and six interviews with sustainable housing experts. The research has yielded nine recommendations that are directed towards three levels of government and related public and private housing organizations. These recommendations have been made in the hopes of making sustainable housing more ubiquitous in Toronto.

Maximizing Energy Harvesting of Photovoltaic Panel Full Tracking Optimization

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Y. Abdelmaksoud ◽  
Hesham A. Hegazi ◽  
Mohamed S. El Morsi ◽  
Sayed M. Metwalli
Keyword(s):  
Performance Optimization ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Attractive Alternative ◽  
Photovoltaic Panel ◽  
Meta Model ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Photovoltaic Solar Cells ◽  
The City

Abstract The wide spread use of solar energy and photovoltaic solar cells attracts researchers to work hard for the objective of improving their performance to be a viable attractive alternative to fossil fuels. This work presents the optimization of the output power of a photovoltaic solar cell to harvest maximum power. The power is optimized based on PVP full tracking of the sun and the effect of the tilt, the azimuth, and the incidence angles on its performance. A meta-model is utilized as a tool in the optimization technique. A case study which develops 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order hyper-surface equations that depend on day and hour to get the optimum tilt angle and optimum azimuth angle for the city of Hurghada in Egypt. The power produced from the polynomial meta-model algorithm is higher by 25.5% over the fixed tilt and azimuth angles. The developed equations from the meta-model optimization technique can be used in tracking control systems to get optimum tilt and optimum azimuth angles at any hour and at any day. By comparing the metamodel and the lengthy performance optimization technique, the error is around 1.1%. Comparison has also been made between the cost of the fixed and full tracking photovoltaic systems.

Rainwater storage tank as a remedy for a local urban flood control

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youngjin Kim ◽  
Mooyoung Han
Keyword(s):  
Flood Control ◽  
Peak Flow ◽  
Flow Curves ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Runoff Analysis ◽  
Tank Capacity ◽  
Versus Peak ◽  
Flood Condition ◽  
Rainwater Tanks

Surcharge runoff over the capacity of drainage pipes is one of main flood breaking factors in urban area. Change into larger pipes is costly and time consuming solution. Rainwater tanks can be a sustainable solution for the control of heavy runoff. The Rainfall-Storage-Drain(RSD) model is developed for the design of rainwater tanks of flood control. Design rainfall of Huff's distribution and runoff analysis on building rooftop makes inflow curves into the tanks. Through a water balance equation, tank volume versus peak flow curves can determine the minimum tank volume needed for controlled peak flow value of a design period. The case study in Seoul City shows a tank of 29 L/m2 can control the runoff of 30-years with the drainage pipes of 10-years design period. The RSD model can give simple and easy curves to understand for tank capacity determination in a local flood condition.

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