LONDON NOISE SURVEY

A SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED BY THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL TO SET NOISE FROM HELICOPTERS IN LEVEL FLIGHT AT 1000 FEET IN PERSPECTIVE WITH OTHER FACTORS AND TO ASCERTAIN THE RELATIVE EFFECTS ON DAILY LIVING OF INDOOR AND OUTDOOR NOISE. INTERVIEWS WERE CARRIED OUT WITH A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF 1377 ADULTS RESIDING WITHIN AN AREA OF ABOUT 35 TO 40 SQUARE MILES IN CENTRAL LONDON AROUND CHARING CROSS. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT ROAD TRAFFIC IS UNQUESTIONABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT INDIVIDUAL SOUND HEARD BY, AND BOTHERING PEOPLE WHEN AT HOME AND OUTDOORS. NEVERTHELESS ROAD TRAFFIC IS NOT INTRINSICALLY THE MOST BOTHERSOME SOUND. THIS IS SHOWN BY THE FACT THAT THE PERCENTAGE OF THOSE WHO HEAR ROAD TRAFFIC IN THEIR HOMES ARE BOTHERED LESS BY IT THAN BY SOME OTHER SOUNDS. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  Building Research Establishment

  Bucknalls Lane, Gorston
  Watford WD2 7JR, Hertfordshire,   England 
• Authors:
  • Parkin, P H
  • Purkis, H J
  • Stephenson, R J
  • Schlaffenberg, B
• Publication Date: 1968

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Helicopters; Interviewing; Noise; Residents; Sampling; Surveys; Traffic noise
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222857
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 60 pp
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 14 1994 12:00AM