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      <title>IMPACT OF HIGHWAY EXPANSION ON COMMUNITY NOISE LEVELS</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/53058</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Noise impacts associated with transportation facilities may be classified as follows: primary impacts, or long-term changes in noise levels in a transportation corridor due to highway improvements; secondary impacts or long-term changes in noise levels in the community surrounding the transportation corridor; and noise impacts associated with construction of proposed highway improvements.  In areas of sensitive residential land use, where local opposition to proposed highway improvements is anticipated, coordination with relevant review agencies and community interest groups is extremely important.  This coordination is discussed and the resulting methodology developed for the Kalanianaole Highway Noise Study in Hawaii is presented.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOR THE WEST SIDE HIGHWAY PROJECT</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The paper describes the environmental impact studies performed as part of the West Side Highway Project in New York City.  Specifically, it discusses the water, noise, and air quality studies, three of the studies relating to the impact of this transportation project on the physical environment.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>APPLIED STATISTICAL APPROACH TO HIGHWAY NOISE ANALYSIS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Such statistical techniques have a number of applications in highway noise studies, and may be used to determine how much monitored noise data to record in order to get a "sufficient" sample size, to account for differences between measured noise levels and noise level predicted for the same conditions, and to adjust predicted future noise levels in accounting for those differences between the output of a mathematical/computer model and the real world.  To answer the need for these statistical techniques, an applied statistical approach to highway noise analysis was developed for the Kalanianaole Highway Noise Study.  The paper discusses the specific statistical considerations that went into the study.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>STATISTICAL COMPARISON OF TWO STREET CANYON MODELS FOR PREDICTING URBAN TRAFFIC RELATED AIR QUALITY</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The purpose of the comparison was to assess the relative abilities of the two models to predict the so-called secondary impacts of the West Side Highway on local street, traffic-induced air quality in Manhattan.  The two models chosen for this comparison were a simple "box" model developed expressly for the West Side Highway Project and the street canyon portion of the Stanford Research Institute's urban diffusion model.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>COMPREHENSIVE MODEL FOR THE PREDICTION OF AIR QUALITY ADJACENT TO URBAN EXPRESSWAYS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A comprehensive urban highway diffusion model termed CUES (Concentrations at Urban Expressway Sites) has been developed and successfully used to predict air quality in New York City.  Unlike previous line source models, CUES is applicable to complex roadway configurations (combinations of at-grade, elevated and depressed elements) subject to arbitrary changes in alignment and extreme traffic loading. The model combines an analytical finite line source representation of roadway elements with statistical parameters obtained from a comparison of theoretical and measured concentrations.  This approach results in a calibrated model capable of predicting future inert pollutant levels within an appropriately chosen statistical confidence interval for specified traffic, meteorology, highway configuration, and year of operation.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 1977 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO ENERGY PLANNING: AN ALTERNATE FUEL DEMONSTRATION PROJECT</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The potential/real shortages of conventional fossil fuel resources for supplying the nation's energy needs are well known and will not be belabored in this paper.  Instead, the authors will assume a knowledge of the gravity of the situation and will proceed to outline the design of an "alternate fuel" demonstration project.  The purpose of this project would be to demonstrate the technical and social practicability of using hydrogen as a primary fuel.  The basis for the design of such a demonstration project must include analysis of the social, political, economic, and legal, as well as the technological aspects of the problem, and therefore must require a broad spectrum of disciplines. Such an interdisciplinary study group was assembled at the NASA Langley Research Center during the summer of 1973 for the purpose of studying the current energy situation.  This unique team, jointly sponsored by NASA and ASEE in cooperation with Old Dominion University, consisted of 22 investigators representing 14 disciplines from 19 differnet academic institutions.  The specific goals of this team were to assemble relevant information on the energy problem and to present specific recommendations for satisfying national energy needs consistent with available resources.  This paper is based on the results of that intensive team study and summarizes its most significant findings on the current energy situation.  Also, the rationale and the procedure for implementing a hydrogen fueled demonstration project are presented and the predicted short and long range results are discussed. /AUTHOR/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A PROBLEM IN RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NOISE INTRUSION AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In this discussion energy appears in the twofold context of a noise source and of a means to combat noise.  The links between energy and noise which are of significance for the purposes of this study are noise input (neighborhood to house), noise output (house to neighborhood), and energy input (input into house, with concomitant impact on community through secondary effects on environment and economy).  Brief mention is made of several corrective measures in housing construction which will cut down the energy consumption used to combat noise,  Also, a list is presented of typical noise levels from various sources, the tolerable limits from such sources, and the probable public reaction to the peak level from these sources.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THE ENVIROMENTAL AGENCY STRATEGY FOR THE CONTROL AND ABATEMENT OF NOISE</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The strategy for the control of noise is a combined Federal, State, and local approach to quiet the environment in a cost-effective manner through regulation, enforcement, and public education.  Section 2 (a) (3) of the Noise Control Act of 1972 states "...that, while primary responsibility for control of noise rests with State and local governments, Federal action is essential to deal with major noise sources in commerce, control of which require national uniformity of treatment."  In section 2 (b) of the Noise Control Act "The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States to promote an environment for all Americans free from noise that jeopardizes their health or welfare."  Section 5 of the Act addresses public health and welfare and requires the Adminiatrator of EPA to publish three documents: (1) A Noise Criteria Document that summarizes available scientific knowledge of the identifiable effects of different qualities and quantities of noise of public health and welfare; (2) A "Levels" Document that provides information about levels of environmental noise requisite to protect public health and welfare in defined areas under various conditions; and (3) A Report that identifies products which in the judgment of the Administrator are major sources of noise.  Based on public health and welfare considerations, the EPA Noise Strategy focuses on four major activities: (1) Propose Aircraft/Airport Regulations to FAA; (2) Identify products (non-aircraft) which are major sources of noise and, subsequently, propose and promulgate new product noise emission standards for these sources; (3) Prepare and promulgate noise emission standards for existing interstate motor carriers; and (4) Label products that may adversely affect public health and welfare or that are sold on the basis of their noise attenuation properties.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FULFILLING PETROLEUM'S ROLE</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The adequacy of U.S. Energy resources is dependent upon political rather than technological developments.  The current energy shortage is a direct result of governmental interference with the free market in energy dating back to the 1954 Supreme Court's decision directing federal control of natural gas prices.  Petroleum, which supplies over 75 percent of this nation's energy needs, faces a crisis before it can fulfill its role in alleviating the energy shortage; a crisis of acknowledging the critical time in the nation's energy affairs and that our energy policies are at a turning point for better or for worse.  For petroleum to fulfill its role in making the U.S. essentially self-sufficient will require achieving the critical balance between economic, energy, and environmental conditions---a balance that does not exist today.  Restoration of the law of supply and demand without punitive "excess-profit taxes" would provide the proper economic climate; proper revision of radical ecology laws would permit cooperatively working out rational solutions to energy-environmental problems.  A domestic capital investiment of 340 billion dollars will be necessary for petroleum to fulfill its energy resource role over a 15 year period.  This will require approximately 200 billion dollars more than the earnings forecasted at the 1973 level if this investment were to be financed by diverting all profits with no dividends to the stockholder.  Even without any additional taxes, this would require generating 400 billion dollars more revenues to be able to have the necessary funds after taxes.  Fortunately, the volumes are such that even these huge sums could be generated by an increase over 1973 values of 65 cents per MCF of natural gas and 22 cents per gallon of gasoline.  This would result in average natural gas prices of approximately 1 dollar per MCF and gasoline prices of 50 cents per gallon plus tax of 9 to 18 cents per gallon.  One thing is certain:  Prices will be substantially higher if federal price controls and allocations force further and continued dependence on foreign, cartel-controlled oil and gas.  An additional benefit to using the free market approach would be that it would provide a rapid balancing of demand and supply with a concurrent efficient allocation of the available supply to the highest value end uses, two goals which have eluded the Federal Energy Office and which must always elude any Central Planning Agency attempting to cope with the 150-million, independent daily market decisions of the American people. /AUTHOR/]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>THE AEPIS-PROGRAM-APPLICATION OF COMPUTERIZED ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT TO PREPARATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The AEPEIS program is a computerized capability to make a quantitative assessment of the total environment, based on functional dependencies between natural or cultural processes and the natural or cultural influences which impact those processes.  The program uses sets of matrices, where the XYZ axis (the ordinate) consists of the processes; the ABC axis (the abscissa) consists of the influences; and the A/X intersect, for example, is defined as the functional dependence of X process upon A influence.  The AEPEIS system has been developed to its present state in the field of biology, where each biotic process such as metabolism, on the XYZ axis, has a functional dependence upon abiotic influences on the ABC axis.  AEPEIS is also applicable to chemistry, physics, geology, economics, and all the social and physical sciences that contain bodies of knowledge or sets of data relevant to environmental impact statements, such as physical oceanography, meteorology, sociology, authropology, medicine and jurisprudence.  Fuctional dependencies, as identified through matrix intersects such as A/X, B/X, etc., are analyzed on sets of matrices through successive biotic levels as necessary to evaluate the total impact of the proposed action.  For example, the assessment can start with a matrix designed for cellular level of cellular level of analysis and progress systematically upward through an entire set of matrices designed for individual, population, community and ecosystem levels; or it can go into the problem at the community or other level and progress downward or upward as necessary for a complete appraisal.  Several examples of such matrices are presented and discussed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>RATIONAL METHOD FOR ASSESSING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF POLLUTIONAL LOADS IN THE OCEAN</title>
      <link>https://trid.trb.org/View/18388</link>
      <description><![CDATA[This paper focuses on one parameter, namely, the pressure effects on degradable material in the marine environment.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 1974 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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