Optimal Design of Permeable Pavement Using Harmony Search Algorithm with SWMM

The permeable pavement is one of representative Low Impact Development (LID) facilities which were used to reduce flooding and recover the water cycle in urban environments. Since the unit cost of porous pavement is greater than that of non-porous pavement, the designs of permeable pavement need to consider reduction effect of rainwater runoff and cost of facilities. These are determined by the size and location of facilities. In this study, the optimal design of permeable pavement, considering the size and location of that, was simulated in a developed optimization model using the Harmony Search (HS)algorithm connected to the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) to calculate urban Rainfall-Runoff.