Water Quality and Hydrology

摘要

The committee members for Water Quality and Hydrology used an integrated approach to discuss research needs for the Transportation Research Board (TRB). This approach was defined in the TRB Millennium Paper prepared by John Sansalone for the Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Quality Committee (A2AO3), chaired by Peter Smith (2000). The following is quoted from the abstract for that paper: Water will continue to play a crucial role in transportation system development, albeit a sometimes-adversarial role as our current constructed urban, highway, waterway, air transport, and rail transportation environments increasingly compete with our natural environment. However, a new holistic paradigm is developing with respect to the role of water and ecological sustainability for transportation systems and the environment in the new millennium. Revolving around water as a common theme, this paradigm will encompass the fundamentally related areas of hydrology, hydraulics and geomorphology, and water quality towards a goal of ecologically sustainable transportation.