PROPAGATION OF TRAFFIC NOISE IN TYPICAL URBAN SITUATIONS

Field measurements have been carried out to investigate the propagation of traffic noise for ten different road and housing configurations. The shielding produced by a substantial brick wall parallel to a main road, and the effect of an aperture in such a barrier, has been measured and results compared with data for open grassland. Shielding by rows of houses flanking a main road and noise propagation along side-roads branching off main roads has been investigated in detail, and empirical curves are presented for predicting levels of l10 in such situations.(a) /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  National Physical Laboratory, England

  Queens Road
  Teddington, Middlesex,   England 
• Authors:
  • Delany, M E
  • Copeland, W C
  • Payne, R C
• Publication Date: 1971-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 85 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Damping (Engineering); Economic efficiency; Field tests; Forecasting; Measurement; Noise barriers; Sound; Sound level; Traffic; Traffic noise; Urban areas; Walls
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• ITRD Terms: 5911: Efficiency; 132: Forecast; 6226: In situ; 6136: Measurement; 2886: Noise barrier; 6748: Sound; 6747: Sound level; 755: Traffic; 313: Urban area; 3368: Wall
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156461
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Report/Paper Numbers: NPL Acou. Rpt. AC 54Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 29 1977 12:00AM