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Integrated road traffic noise mapping in urban Indian context
Noise Mapping, 2020 Road traffic noise has been recognized as a serious issue that affects the urban regions. Due to urbanization and industrialization, transportation in urban areas has increased.
Sonaviya Dipeshkumar R. +1 more
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Noise and Health, 2015 Little empirical evidence is available regarding the effects of road traffic noise on cognitive performance in adults, although traffic noise can be heard at many offices and home office workplaces.
Sabine J Schlittmeier +3 more
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A simulation of traffic noise emissions at a roundabout based on a cellular automaton model
Acta Acustica, 2021 The calculation and evaluation of traffic noise is an important task in urban road design. Roundabouts are a common form of urban road intersection. The complexity of traffic operations makes the calculation of traffic noise near a roundabout challenging.
Du Canyi, Qiu Xinfa, Li Feng, Cai Ming
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Noise Abatement Approach Using Computer Simulation Model for Urban Indian Road of a Tier-2 City
Archives of Acoustics, 2021 Noise pollution is a major problem nowadays. In urban context, road traffic is the main source of noise pollution. People directly exposed to road traffic noise suffer from moderate to severe annoyance, headache, stress, feeling of exhaustion, and ...
Dipeshkumar Ratilal SONAVIYA +1 more
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American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012 Road traffic is the most interfering noise source in developed countries. According to a publication of the European Union (EU) at the end of the twentieth century [1], about 40% of the population in 15 EU member states is exposed to road traffic noise at mean levels exceeding 55 dB(A).
Minho Kim +6 more
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Environmental Health, 2021 Background Both physical and psychological health outcomes have been associated with exposure to environmental noise. Noise sensitivity could have the same moderating effect on physical and psychological health outcomes related to environmental noise ...
Stephen Stansfeld +4 more
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Development of an open-source road traffic noise model for exposure assessment [PDF]
, 2015 This paper describes the development of a model for assessing TRAffic Noise EXposure (TRANEX) in an open-source geographic information system. Instead of using proprietary software we developed our own model for two main reasons: 1) so that the treatment
Beevers, Sean +11 more
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Application of Machine Learning to Include Honking Effect in Vehicular Traffic Noise Prediction
Applied Sciences, 2021 A vehicular road traffic noise prediction methodology based on machine learning techniques has been presented. The road traffic parameters that have been considered are traffic volume, percentage of heavy vehicles, honking occurrences and the equivalent ...
Daljeet Singh +3 more
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Noise and Health, 2019 Introduction: With the development of transportation system and the economy, the rapidly increasing number of automobiles brings the associated problem of road traffic noise, especially in metropolitan and densely populated high-rise cities like Hong ...
Chenzhi Cai, Cheuk Ming Mak, Xuhui He
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Estimating the Noise Levels Generated by Road Traffic in Egypt [PDF]
Fayoum University Journal of EngineeringRoad traffic noise, commonly considered as the most directly unpleasant consequence of road transportation, has been found to have detrimental effects on human well-being when individuals are exposed to prolonged periods of excessive noise levels ...
Ashraf Talaat, Ahmed Atteya
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