PURPOSES : The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of dust removal by dust removal vehicles by the measuring dust load and PM10 concentrations on the sidewalks of block pavements. METHODS : Field experiments were conducted to determine a dust removal method suitable for the sidewalk conditions, as identified through a literature review. Data collection was followed by the evaluation of the sidewalk dust load with removal vehicles and analysis of the PM10 content within a service road. Moreover, an economic analysis was conducted based on the social costs of dust reduction. RESULTS : When cleaning a sidewalk block by spraying water, the contaminants in small gaps in the block pavement could be reduced, providing a potential solution to void clogging. The dust on the surface of the sidewalk was suspended from a paved road with a high level of traffic volume. Using sidewalk dust removal vehicles with sweeping, spraying water, and inhalation reduced the dust load and PM10 contents by more than 2 and 0.07g/m2, respectively. CONCLUSIONS : According to the economic analysis of the development of dust removal vehicles for sidewalks, the cost-benefit analysis method shows an input effect of 0.4, but if the reduction amount of fine particles such as PM2.5, further experiments are necessary to address the atmospheric fine dust concentrations resulting from cleaning sidewalk block pavements.

The physical properties of sidewalk pavement material made by combining rectangular chips with urethane resin were reviewed through both an indoor test and an on-site test. To obtain the chips, forest tree by-products were crushed and then passed through a 10mm sieve. The materials that remained in the 2.36 mm sieve are the above mentioned chips. For the indoor test, the mixing ratios of urethane resin to chips, by mass, were set as 30%, 40%, 50%, 75% and 100%, respectively. Then, the mixture obtained by mixing with forced mixing type mixer was formed in an iron mold. Tests for tensile strength, elasticity and permeability coefficient were performed 7 days after forming. For the on-site test, the cross-section of the sidewalk pavement material consisted of sand filter layer, crushed stone subbase, permeable concrete base and surface layer of the forest tree chip mixture. For the surface layer, the mass ratios of urethane resin to the forest tree chip were determined to be 40%, 60% and 80%, respectively. The physical property test like the one performed in the indoor test and the skid resistance test was performed over 7 days after the completion of trial construction. According to the result of the tests, the tensile strength, GB/SB coefficients and permeability coefficient were 0.1 to 0.7MPa, 15 to 43% and 0.3 to 0.5mm/sec, respectively, depending on the mixing ratio. In addition, the skid resistance coefficient was 75BPN with the mass ratio of the urethane resin to the forest tree chips of 80%. Furthermore, it was found through the on-site test that a pavement surface with excellent surface smoothness could be obtained through the application of a construction method using an electric heat roller. It was also confirmed that the mixing ratio of urethane resin to forest trees chips needed to be 60% or more.