ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE - ITS NUISANCE VALUE
METHODS OF MEASURING THE NUISANCE VALUE OF NOISE, IN PARTICULAR, TRAFFIC NOISE INDEX, ARE DISCUSSED. DIFFICULTY HAS BEEN EXPERIENCED IN FINDING GOOD CORRELATION BETWEEN AN INDIVIDUAL SCORE ON A PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALE AND PHYSICAL NOISE MEASUREMENTS. THE PROPOSED STUDY OF ROAD-TRAFFIC NUISANCE IN HOUSING AREAS INVOLVES: ESTABLISHING THE EXTENT AND TYPE OF NUISANCE BY INTERVIEW; CONSTRUCTING A PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASURE OF NUISANCE, FOR ADMINISTRATION BY POSTAL QUESTIONNAIRE OR INTERVIEWER; FINDING THE PHYSICAL NOISE PARAMETERS CORRELATING CLOSELY WITH THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SCALE; SUGGESTING NUISANCE LEVELS ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMMUNITY; ADVOCATING AN ECONOMIC DESIGN FOR LOCATING BUILDINGS NEAR HIGHWAYS. /AUTHOR/
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Availability:
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Supplemental Notes:
- Vol 2, No 4, PP 279-296
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Corporate Authors:
Elsevier Publishing Company, Limited
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Authors:
- BOTTOM, C G
- Croome, D J
- Publication Date: 1969-10
Media Info
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Serial:
- Applied Acoustics
- Volume: 2 N4
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0003-682X
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0003682X
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Dwellings; Indexes (Information management); Interviewing; Measurement; Questionnaires; Traffic noise
- Old TRIS Terms: Psychological scale
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00223165
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 17 1970 12:00AM