An Economic Evaluation for Road Traffic Noise

This paper describes how the traffic noise problem in Japan has slowly creeping for many years, but now it is at the forefront. Unfortunately, absolute countermeasures against such nuisances have not been found. This may lie in the fact that it has been very difficult to estimate the corresponding monetary value of the affects of noise pollution. This paper focuses on the derivation of what can be called social costs, caused by noise, mainly road traffic noise. An attempt to derive the actual cost of what is called external diseconomy, such as public nuisance, has been done since the introduction of the concept of social costs in the 70s. A number of practical methods for measuring social costs, related to noise are presented in the paper as follows: measurement from direct expenditure for equipment or facilities to prevent noise propagation; measurement from depreciation of income of properly caused by noise; analysis of court decisions on lawsuits against noise pollution; and analysis of individual perception of noise pollution through the results of questionnaire surveys.

• Corporate Authors:

  University of British Columbia, Vancouver

  Centre for Transportation Studies
  Vancouver, British Columbia  Canada  V6T 1W5
• Authors:
  • Uchiyama, Hisao
• Conference:
  • Research for Tomorrow's Transport Requirements. Proceedings of the Fourth World Conference on Transport Research
  • Location: Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
  • Date: 1986-5-0 to 1986-5-0
• Publication Date: 1986

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 537-552
• Monograph Title: Research for Tomorrow’s Transport Requirements

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Countermeasures; Court decisions; Externalities; Noise; Noise barriers; Noise sources; Sound transmission; Traffic noise
• Geographic Terms: Japan
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01082554
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 18 2007 11:29AM