Road dust resuspension: A review

IC Rienda, CA Alves - Atmospheric Research, 2021 - Elsevier
In the last decades, emissions from road traffic saw a significant drop due to the stricter
regulations for the motor vehicles' exhaust and cleaner technologies for fleets. Therefore …

Review of pollutants in urban road dust and stormwater runoff: part 1. Heavy metals released from vehicles

HM Hwang, MJ Fiala, D Park… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Urban road dust can be highly enriched with trace metals such as copper, lead, zinc, and
platinum group elements (PGEs) that are released primarily from vehicles. Concentrations of …

Pollution characteristics, risk assessment, and source apportionment of heavy metals in road dust in Beijing, China

C Men, R Liu, F Xu, Q Wang, L Guo, Z Shen - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
To analyze the spatial distribution patterns, risks, and sources of heavy metals (As, Cd, Cr,
Cu, Hg, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn, Fe), 36 road dust samples were collected from an urbanized area of …

Heavy metal pollution by road-deposited sediments and its contribution to total suspended solids in rainfall runoff from intensive industrial areas

H Jeong, JY Choi, J Lee, J Lim, K Ra - Environmental Pollution, 2020 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship between road-deposited sediments (RDS) and total
suspended solids (TSS) is essential for managing non-point pollution. Studying the heavy …

Potentially toxic elements in street dust from an urban city of a developing country: ecological and probabilistic health risks assessment

MH Kabir, T Kormoker, MS Islam, R Khan… - … science and pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Anthropogenic activities in and around the urban highways followed by aerodynamic
processing generate street dusts, which can cause adverse health effects through different …

Characterization, heavy metal content and health risk assessment of urban road dusts from the historic center of the city of Thessaloniki, Greece

A Bourliva, C Christophoridis, L Papadopoulou… - Environmental …, 2017 - Springer
In the present study, an investigation of the mineralogy and morphology, the heavy metal
content and the health risk of urban road dusts from the second largest city of Greece was …

A comprehensive assessment of heavy metal contamination in road dusts along a hectic national highway of Bangladesh: Spatial distribution, sources of …

MH Kabir, T Kormoker, RS Shammi, TR Tusher… - Toxin …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Human activities around or within national highways, combined with atmospheric mixing,
produce road dust, which can cause health problems through a variety of exposure routes …

Enrichment of road dust particles and adjacent environments with metals and metalloids in eastern Moscow

NS Kasimov, DV Vlasov, NE Kosheleva - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
Road dust is one of the most informative indicators of the ecological state of urban
environments, as vehicles have become the major source of pollution in many cities. Road …

Accumulation degree and source apportionment of trace metals in smaller than 63 μm road dust from the areas with different land uses: a case study of Xi'an, China

D Shi, X Lu - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Finer urban dusts have more serious environmental detriment and health risk than coarser
urban dusts. The trace metals Pb, Cu, Zn, Cr, Co, Ba, Mn, Ni, V, Y, Rb, Ga, Hf, and Zr were …

Risk assessment and implication of human exposure to road dust heavy metals in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

II Shabbaj, MA Alghamdi, M Shamy, SK Hassan… - International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Data dealing with the assessment of heavy metal pollution in road dusts in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia and its implication to human health risk of human exposure to heavy metals, are …