RESPONSE TO A REDUCTION IN TRAFFIC NOISE EXPOSURE

Dose-response relationships for road traffic noise have previously been based on community response (annoyance) measured under relatively steady state noise exposure conditions. This paper is a report of an examination of response measured following a change in exposure. A reduction in road traffic noise exposure led to a much larger reduction in annoyance than would have been anticipated from responses measured under steady state conditions. An explanation for this may be found in adaptation level theory. If there is some cost to the individual associated with adaptation to noise, current scales of annoyance may represent attenuated measures of the true effects of the noise exposure, particularly at higher levels. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Brown, A L
  • HALL, A
  • Kyle-Little, J
• Publication Date: 1985-1-22

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 235-246
• Serial:
  • Journal of Sound and Vibration
  • Volume: 98
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0022-460X
  • EISSN: 1095-8568
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0022460X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Annoyance; Crash exposure; Human factors; Impacts; Measurement; Motor reactions; Noise control; Psychological adaptation; Social impacts; Sound; Sound level; Traffic; Traffic noise
• Uncontrolled Terms: Exposure
• Old TRIS Terms: Community consequences
• ITRD Terms: 2208: Adaptation (psychol); 2267: Attitude (psychol); 9009: Decrease; 6136: Measurement; 2247: Reaction (human); 6748: Sound; 6747: Sound level; 755: Traffic
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00399424
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 25 2004 2:43AM