Use of the Traffic Noise Model in a Municipal Land Use Approval Process
A land owner plans to create a motor sports park on a 500+ acre tract in southeastern Pennsylvania. This involves construction of almost 4 miles of tracks for use by sport cars and motorcycles. The Township Zoning ordinance has outdated noise standards that do not apply to this application. In order to assess the potential noise impacts of the project, a study was completed generally following FHWA procedures for noise impacts and mitigation analysis. Using data from a monitoring program at similar facilities, TNM 2.5 was adapted with a user-defined vehicle to generate trackside noise levels, and then to evaluate propagation to neighboring properties and to develop a mitigation plan. This paper discusses the impact criteria that were adopted and the modified approach to developing a user-defined vehicle in TNM. In addition, it raises a question about the use of TNM for high-speed roadways.
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Corporate Authors:
500 Fifth Street, NW
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Authors:
- Heishman, Paul
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
- Date: 2008
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: DVD
- Features: Figures; Maps; References;
- Pagination: 16p
- Monograph Title: TRB 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Land use; Land use planning; Noise sources; Planning by facility or land use; Sports cars; Traffic noise
- Identifier Terms: Traffic Noise Model
- Uncontrolled Terms: Motor sports
- Geographic Terms: Pennsylvania
- Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; I15: Environment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01088504
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 08-1086
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Feb 25 2008 2:33PM