HIGHWAY ENGINEERING AND THE INFLUENCE OF GEOMETRIC DESIGN CHARACTERISTICS ON NOISE

IN CONTRAST TO THE QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO TRAFFIC AND DESIGN PROBLEMS, IN HIGHWAY ENGINEERING, NOISE IS AN AREA IN WHICH THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS ARE FREQUENTLY DIFFUSED. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE EFFECTS OF ROAD DESIGN FEATURES ON NOISE IS GIVEN IN QUALITATIVE TERMS TOGETHER WITH SOME QUANTITATIVE DATA WHERE AVAILABLE. THE DIFFERENT PROBLEMS OF MOTORWAYS AND ALL-PURPOSE ROUTES ARE COMPARED. THE RESULTS OF THE LONDON NOISE SURVEY ARE DISCUSSED AND THE OBSERVATION MADE THAT NOISE FORM ROAD TRAFFIC WAS PREDOMINANT OVER ALL OTHER SOURCES. THE NEED FOR FURTHER RESEARCH INTO THE EFFECTS OF NOISE BARRIERS IS MENTIONED. /AUTHOR/

• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Vol 15, No 1, PP 17-22
• Authors:
  • Williams, T E
• Publication Date: 1971-3-8

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Journal of Sound and Vibration
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0022-460X
  • EISSN: 1095-8568
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0022460X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Geometric design; Highway design; Highway engineering; Noise control; Traffic noise
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00223473
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 22 1971 12:00AM