title: A study on the characteristics of silt loading on paved roads in the Seoul metropolitan area using a mobile monitoring system.
abstract: This study is considered the first attempt to apply a mobile monitoring system to estimating silt loading on paved roads in a megacity such as the Seoul metropolitan area. Using a mobile monitoring system developed in 2005, we estimated silt loadings on representative paved roads in the Seoul metropolitan area, including the city of Incheon, over a period of 3 yr. The temporal and spatial characteristics of silt loading were investigated for the carefully selected roads that may reflect the characteristics of the cities of Seoul and Incheon. In this study, changes in the average silt loading values were investigated in terms of land use, the temporal resolution of data acquisition (i.e., seasonal, daily, three-hour scale), the road width or number of lanes, and rainfall, which may affect the characteristics of the average silt loading significantly. It was found that the advantages of using the mobile monitoring system are its ability to obtain a large quantity of silt loading data in a short period of time and over a wide area and its ability to create a silt loading map showing the relative magnitude of silt loading in relation to a specific location, which makes it possible to easily locate hot spots.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Engineering, Inha University, Yonghyun-Dong, Nam-Gu, Incheon, South Korea.
authors.forename: Sehyun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Yong-Won
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Jung
mesh_terms: D000336:Aerosols; D002947:Cities; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D018986:Motor Vehicles; D010316:Particle Size; D052638:Particulate Matter / Q000032:analysis; D011891:Rain; D056910:Republic of Korea; D014887:Weather
chemical_list: D000336:Aerosols; D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D052638:Particulate Matter