PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF DESIGNING AGAINST TRAFFIC NOISE

Information on barrier performance significant for design purposes is tabulated and the extraction of such information from existent design schemes (taking into consideration all major variables) is examined. A method is described which consists of one basic set of graphs to give effective heights for a barrier placed midway between the source (S) and the receiver (R), and a set of correction lines to give actual barrier heights for any intermediate location and any relative elevation of S and R. Use of the design charts is described, and practical factors in the design of barriers are set forth.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at Seminar X (Road Design 1: General Topics) of the PTRC Summer Annual Meeting, Warwick University, England, 8-12 July 1974.
• Corporate Authors:

  Planning and Transport Res and Computation Co Ltd

  167 Oxford Street
  London W1R 1AH,   England 
• Authors:
  • Hall, A D
• Publication Date: 1974-7

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 289-314
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Comision Permanente del Asfalto
  • Publisher: Comision Permanente del Asfalto

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Charts; Graphics; Highway design; Noise barriers; Noise control; Performance; Traffic noise
• Uncontrolled Terms: Graphical analysis
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00096294
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: PTRC/P/108
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 10 1975 12:00AM