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Development and Testing of an Active Noise Control System for Urban Road Traffic Noise

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2023
As urbanization accelerates, the increasing number of vehicles and travel demands contribute to escalating road traffic noise pollution. Although passive noise control techniques such as noise barriers and green belts effectively mitigate noise, they ...
Biyu Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parameter Estimation for Traffic Noise Models Using a Harmony Search Algorithm

open access: yesJournal of Applied Mathematics, 2013
A technique has been developed for predicting road traffic noise for environmental assessment, taking into account traffic volume as well as road surface conditions. The ASJ model (ASJ Prediction Model for Road Traffic Noise, 1999), which is based on the
Deok-Soon An   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Stated choice valuation of traffic related noise [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper reports a novel application of the stated choice method to the valuation of road traffic noise. The innovative context used is that of choice between apartments with different levels of traffic noise, view, sunlight and cost with which ...
Abigail L. Bristow   +11 more
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Noise pollution of the road network of the city by road transport [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2023
The article is devoted to the analysis of noise pollution of a residential area by road traffic. It is noted that car noise is a great danger to human health, especially in large cities and industrial centers.
Sippel Irina   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation and analysis of noise levels in Ilorin metropolis, Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Evaluation and analysis of noise pollution levels have been carried out to determine the level of noise and its sources in Ilorin metropolis. Noise measurements have been done in the morning, at noon, in the evening, and at night to determine noise ...
Oyedepo, Sunday Olayinka
core   +1 more source

RASTER DATA BASED AUTOMATED NOISE DATA INTEGRATION FOR NOISE MAPPING LIMITING DATA DEPENDENCY [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2021
Noise has become a recurrent problem worldwide. Road traffic noise studies in India are fewer and restricted only to the metropolitan areas. These studies focused on recording, monitoring, analysis, modelling, and mapping.
S. Bharadwaj   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Legal Basis for Protection against Road Traffic Noise: An Outline of the Issue. Part One

open access: yesStudia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2022
The article presents a multi-faceted analysis of legal regulations relating to protection against road traffic noise. The problem of this kind of noise is topical and very important.
Piotr Poniatowski
doaj   +1 more source

Reducing the noise pollution level along main roads in Sibiu, Romania by optimizing the traffic flow

open access: yesMATEC Web of Conferences, 2017
Noise pollution is one of the most important negative effects of road traffic, especially in cities. The current paper presents an attempt to reduce the noise level created by the road traffic along some main roads in the city of Sibiu, Romania by ...
Deac Cristian   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution of building façade road traffic noise levels in Flanders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The evolution of daytime facade noise levels by road traffic at 250 dwellings in Flanders is assessed. Three identical man-operated measurement campaigns have been conducted in the years 1996, 2001 and 2009, during fall.
Botteldooren, Dick   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The impact of road traffic noise on cognitive performance in attention-based tasks depends on noise level even within moderate-level ranges

open access: yesNoise 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
doaj   +1 more source

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