TREES AND LANDFORMS REDUCE TRAFFIC NOISE POLLUTION

THE ARTICLE DISCUSSES TESTS MADE TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECT OF TREES ON THE REDUCTION OF TRAFFIC NOISE IN RURAL AND URBAN AREAS. TESTS WERE CARRIED OUT USING RECORDINGS OF TRAFFIC NOISE PROJECTED THROUGH BELTS OF TREES AND SHRUBS THE REDUCED NOISE IS BEING MEASURED AT VARIOUS DISTANCES BEHIND THE BELT. THE TESTS WERE THEN REPEATED OVER SIMILAR SURFACES WITHOUT ANY TREES. RECOMMENDATIONS ARE GIVEN CONCERNING WIDTH OF TREE BELT, DISTANCE FROM HIGHWAY AND HEIGHTS OF TREES, FOR A GIVEN REDUCTION IN NOISE. /TRRL/

• Publication Date: 1973-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures;
• Pagination: p. 52-3
• Serial:
  • Rural and Urban Roads
  • Volume: 11 N
  • Issue Number: n5

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Environmental impacts; General surface features of the earth; Highways; Noise control; Recommendations; Rural areas; Testing; Traffic; Trees; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Landforms
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00224614
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 16 1974 12:00AM