RAILROAD NOISE RESEARCH PROGRAM

ONDERZOEKPROGRAMMA RAILVERKEERSLAWAAI

This report gives a list of the research planned with respect to railways, trams and underground railways. The list was drawn up by the Interministerial Commission on Noise Nuisance (I.C.G.) with a view to coordinating the research projects commissioned by the national government to support its policy on rail traffic noise. The research programme comprises research into practicable methods of measuring the noise emitted by rail traffic, research on the relation between the amount of noise emitted and its effect, measurement of vehicle noise emission, emission caused by shunting activities, zoning systems, criteria for new stock, research on the noise of warning installations and signal horns, and on noise emission from stations, listing of noise-sensitive receivers, financial consequences, and an investigation into vibration caused by rail traffic. The entire research programme includes 14 projects. /TRRL/

• Corporate Authors:

  Ministerie van Volksgezondheid en Milieuhygiene

  8-12 Dr Reijersstraat
  Leidschendam,   Netherlands 
• Publication Date: 1976-8

Language

• Dutch

Media Info

• Pagination: 12 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Acoustic measuring instruments; Acoustics; Costs; Environmental impacts; Human factors; Light rail transit; Measurement; Noise; Railroad stations; Railroads; Rapid transit; Sound; Sound level; Subways; Switching; Traffic signals; Trolley cars; Vibration; Warning systems
• Uncontrolled Terms: Subway noise
• Old TRIS Terms: Acoustic measurement; Audible warnings; Noise emissions; Railway; Rapid transit noise
• Subject Areas: Environment; Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00149942
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Institute for Road Safety Research, SWOV
• Report/Paper Numbers: RL-H
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: May 11 1981 12:00AM