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 …

Spatial distribution and sources of potentially toxic elements in road dust and its PM10 fraction of Moscow megacity

D Vlasov, N Kosheleva, N Kasimov - Science of the total environment, 2021 - Elsevier
For the first time, the contents of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) in road dust and in its PM
10 fraction were studied in Moscow from June 09 to July 30, 2017 on roads with different …

[HTML][HTML] Volcanic emissions and atmospheric pollution: A study of nanoparticles

EM Trejos, LFO Silva, JC Hower, EMM Flores… - Geoscience …, 2021 - Elsevier
The influence of emissions of an active volcano on the composition of nanoparticles and
ultrafine road dust was identified in an urban area of the Andes. Although many cities are …

Air quality modeling to inform pollution mitigation strategies in a Latin American megacity

J East, JS Montealegre, JE Pachon… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Poor air quality disproportionally impacts cities in low-and middle-income countries. In
Bogotá, Colombia, a metropolitan area with over 10 million inhabitants, fine particulate …

Benzo[a]pyrene in Moscow road dust: pollution levels and health risks

NE Kosheleva, DV Vlasov, IV Timofeev… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Benzo [a] pyrene (BaP) is one of the priority pollutants in the urban environment.
For the first time, the accumulation of BaP in road dust on different types of Moscow roads …

[HTML][HTML] Road dust resuspension in a coastal Atlantic intermunicipal urban area with industrial facilities: Emission factors, chemical composition and ecotoxicity

IC Rienda, T Nunes, C Gonçalves, A Vicente… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Road dust resuspension in urban environments can be both a means of transport of
pollutants across the various environmental compartments and a source of pollutants itself …

[HTML][HTML] Potentially toxic elements and lead isotopic signatures in the 10 μm fraction of urban dust: Environmental risk enhanced by resuspension of contaminated …

A Giordano, M Malandrino, FA Marsan… - Environmental Research, 2024 - Elsevier
In urban environments, soils are a sink of pollutants and might become a source of
contamination, as they commonly display potentially toxic elements (PTE) concentrations …

Estimating the effect of road congestion on air quality in Latin America

F Bedoya-Maya, A Calatayud, VG Mejía - Transportation Research Part D …, 2022 - Elsevier
Road congestion and air pollution are key challenges for quality of life in urban settings. This
research leverages highly disaggregated crowdsourced data from Latin America to study the …

Spatial distribution and chemical composition of road dust in two high-altitude Latin American cities

S Vanegas, EM Trejos, BH Aristizábal, GM Pereira… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
Road dust (RD) resuspension is one of the main sources of particulate matter in cities with
adverse impacts on air quality, health, and climate. Studies on the variability of the deposited …

A district-level emission inventory of anthropogenic PM2. 5 from the primary sources over the Indian Indo Gangetic Plain: Identification of the emission hotspots

A Ghosh, PK Nagar, J Maddhesia, M Sharma… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
A district-wise emission inventory was made for the states and union territories (UTs) of the
Indian Indo-Gangetic Plain for the base year of 2018 to estimate the emissions of PM 2.5 …