PREDICTION MODELING FOR THE ASSESSMENT AND ABATEMENT OF HIGHWAY TRAFFIC AND CONSTRUCTION NOISE

Environmental assessments of highway related noise are based on analytic prediction models. Because the application of current noise models is limited to freely flowing traffic and simple site characteristics, the Federal Highway Administration is developing refined noise models that will have application to a greater variety of highway noise assessments that must be performed. Noise models have been designed to assess noise propagation over asymmetric barriers and nonuniform ground cover, noise generated by stop-and-go traffic in urban settings, and construction noise impacts. Computer versions, capable of predicting the energy-averaged equivalent sound level, L sub EQ, have been prepared for each model and are undergoing test and evaluation.

• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Office of Research and Development, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Romano, F M
• Publication Date: 1982-12

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 85-91
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 46
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction sites; Environmental impacts; Forecasting; Mathematical models; Noise barriers; Noise control; Road construction; Simulation; Sound level; Terrain; Traffic noise; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00379438
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-034 249
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Oct 30 1983 12:00AM