HYDRAULIC PERFORMANCE OF A PERMEABLE PAVEMENT: LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS

In the last two decades, green infrastructures have gradually been introduced in urban areas as a countermeasure for street flooding and pollutants wash-off to nearby water bodies. Among other solutions, permeable pavements (PP) are one of the most implemented ones. However, due to the knowledge gap regarding the performance and the efficiency over time of PPs, their adoption is often prevented. A large scale fully monitored PP system is here presented and used to assess the physical processes occurring on the PP system when subjected to heavy rainfall events.