NOISE BARRIER COST REDUCTION PROCEDURES STAMINA 2.0/OPTIMA

The BCR (Barrier Cost Reduction) procedure is a computer process employed to predict highway noise and design noise barriers; the BCR procedure requires the use of two separate computer programs. The fundamental purpose of the BCR procedure is to enable the highway noise control engineer to design cost efficient highway noise barriers. It allows the user to examine effectiveness and cost of many different barrier design configurations very quickly and cheaply. The procedure also allows the designer to develop an optimum noise barrier design--one that provides the desired protection for the least cost. It requires the use of two separate computer programs. The first is a modified version of FHWA's STAMINA 1.0. This modified STAMINA is called STAMINA 2.0. The second program is an interactive program called OPTIMA which must run on a time-sharing computer system...Software Description: The programs are written in FORTRAN for implementation on an Amdahl 470/V7A operating under MVS-JES2.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Simpson, A J
• Publication Date: 1972-7-26

Media Info

• Pagination: n.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Analysis; Barriers (Roads); Computer aided design; Computer programs; Cost engineering; Costs; Datasets; Design; Forecasting; Highways; Noise; Noise barriers; Noise control; Optimization; Reduction (Chemistry); Sound level; Structural design; Transportation
• Identifier Terms: FORTRAN (Computer program language)
• Uncontrolled Terms: Barriers; Cost analysis; Noise reduction; Transportation noise
• Old TRIS Terms: Optimum design; Reduction
• Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I21: Planning of Transport Infrastructure;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00365492
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/DF-82/001
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 30 1982 12:00AM