EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF MOTOR VEHICLE NOISE REGULATIONS ON POPULATION

This paper presents a conceptual method of quantifying the effects of a change in environmental noise on public health and welfare and, as an example of the application of this method, a first approximation to quantifying the impact of motor vehicle noise regulations. Health and welfare are assumed to include personal comfort and well-being as well as the absence of clinical symptoms. The approach is statistical; that is, emphasis is placed on the average response of groups of people to noise, where average response is a combination of factors. The measure of the response is expressed in terms of the magnitude of the population that would be expected to express in a social survey a high degree of annoyance as a result of the activity interference produced by a specific exposure level.

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  • Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Presented at a workshop on Motor Vehicle Noise Control, Washington, D.C., 10-11 December 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board (TRB)

  Washington, DC   
• Authors:
  • Yaniv, Simone L
• Conference:
  • Workshop on Motor Vehicle Noise Control
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1974-12-10 to 1974-12-11
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 77-84
• Monograph Title: Motor vehicle noise control
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 152
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Health; Motor vehicles; Noise; Noise control; Regulations; Sound level; Statistical analysis
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Economics; Environment; Highways; Law; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00098531
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Aug 27 1975 12:00AM