SHOULD ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE BE MEASURED BY THE NUMBER OF NOISE EVENTS?

The paper proposes, without formal definition, the concept of number of noise events as a measure of road traffic noise. Various studies which relate traffic noise annoyance to traffic stream composition and others which examine the frequency of reports of a specific vehicle nuisances are examined, and from these it is suggested that the noise event measure could be the determinant of community annoyance. The relationship between noise events and current noise scales is examined. It is suggested that the effectiveness of most traffic noise control strategies in reducing annoyance could be significantly underestimated by the use of scales such as 1 (sub 10) and 1 (sub eq). (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 1981 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society, Cowes.
• Corporate Authors:

  Australian Acoustical Society

  35-43 Clarence Street
  Sydney, New South Wales,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • Brown, A L
• Publication Date: 1981-9

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 5 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Annoyance; Conferences; Measurement; Methodology; Numbers; Sound; Sound level; Traffic; Traffic noise; Trucks; Vehicle mix
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 1236: Lorry; 6136: Measurement; 9102: Method; 6432: Number; 6748: Sound; 755: Traffic; 641: Traffic composition
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00371268
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• ISBN: 0 909882 04 5
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 31 1983 12:00AM