Quantified appraisal of pollutants dispersing from road surfaces by airborne mechanisms

Jones, A. D. G.; Tinker, J.A.

doi:10.1016/0048-9697(84)90393-0

“…Resuspension also can be a sediment transport process, but it refers to finer particles that can be supported by the upward currents in turbulent eddies and moved greater distances than the sand-sized particles. Jones and Tinker (1984) found that the amounts of contaminants entrained by resuspension of wet deposition depend on traffic density, duration of the rainfall, wind speed, and wind direction. Likewise, dry deposition on highways can be reintroduced into the atmosphere and transported to different locations by wind and anthropogenic activities, such as construction and automobile turbulence (Nicholson and Branson, 1990).…”

Section: Saltation and Resuspensionmentioning

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U.S. Geological Survey

1998

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Knowledge of the characteristics of highway runoff (concentrations and loads of constituents and the physical and chemical processes which produce this runoff) is important for decision makers, planners, and highway engineers to assess and mitigate possible adverse impacts of highway runoff on the Nation's receiving waters. In October 1996, the Federal Highway Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey began the National Highway Runoff Data and Methodology Synthesis to provide a catalog of the pertinent information available; to define the necessary documentation to determine if data are valid (useful for intended purposes), current, and technically supportable; and to evaluate available sources in terms of current and foreseeable information needs.

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Methodology and significance of studies of atmospheric deposition in highway runoff

Colman¹,

Rice²,

Willoughby³

2001

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Knowledge of the characteristics of highway runoff (concentrations and loads of constituents and the physical and chemical processes which produce this runoff) is important for decision makers, planners, and highway engineers to assess and mitigate possible adverse impacts of highway runoff on the Nation's receiving waters. In October 1996, the Federal Highway Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey began the National Highway Runoff Data and Methodology Synthesis to provide a catalog of the pertinent information available; to define the necessary documentation to determine if data are valid (useful for intended purposes), current, and technically supportable; and to evaluate available sources in terms of current and foreseeable information needs.

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Quantified appraisal of pollutants dispersing from road surfaces by airborne mechanisms

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Pollutional Aspects of Urban Runoff

Methodology and significance of studies of atmospheric deposition in highway runoff

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