Abstract:With the acceleration of urbanization, after the hardening of urban roads, the rainwater infiltration capacity of the surface has significantly decreased, and the rainwater absorption capacity has gradually weakened, leading to an increase in surface runoff and exacerbating the risk of urban waterlogging. Waterlogging prediction has become an important technical means for urban flood control and disaster reduction. Combined with the machine learning methods, a comprehensive prediction model is proposed for simulating changes in runoff, drainage capacity and waterlogging depth during rainfall. Using rainfall-runoff and drainage capacity parameters from a certain area, a particle swarm optimization (PSO)-based BP neural network is used to predict the waterlogging depth. The experimental verification with rainfall and waterlogging depth data on August 24, 2024 shows that the PSO-based BP neural network is superior to the traditional BP network in prediction accuracy, providing a new technical approach for urban waterlogging prediction and flood control.