TRANSPORTATION NOISE POLLUTION: CONTROL AND ABATEMENT CHAPTER VII, RECOMMENDATIONS FOR NOISE CONTROL

This chapter recommends indoor and outdoor community noise criteria and recommends transportation noise criteria for aircraft, automobiles, motorcycles, commercial trucks and buses, rapid transit and diesel trains, off-highway recreational vehicles, construction equipment, and vehicle operator and passenger compartments. This chapter also recommends new local, regional, state and federal organizational arrangements for dealing with noise pollution. Land use control, acoustical insulation requirements for buildings, enlightened local government purchasing practices, state and local regulation and licensing, vehicle inspection requirements on truck mufflers, aircraft certification, aircraft operational requirements, and transportation systems planning are put forward as specific methods for abating transportation noise. Recommendations are also made for further research on aircraft engine noise reduction, sonic boom reduction, tire noise abatement, improvements in exhaust muffler technology, reductions in railway wheel-rail and engine noise, and building sound-proofing technology.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Results of the 1970 American Society of Engineering Education-NASA Summer Faculty Program in Engineering Systems Design
• Corporate Authors:

  Langley Research Center

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  Hampton, VA  United States  23665

  Old Dominion University

  Research Foundation, P.O. Box 6369
  Norfolk, VA  United States  23508

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration

  600 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20546
• Publication Date: 1970

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 121-131

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft noise; Airport noise; Diesel multiple unit cars; Environmental protection; Federal government; Federal laws; Land use planning; Noise; Noise control; Railroads; Recreational vehicles; Regulations; Traffic noise; Transportation planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Railroad noise
• Old TRIS Terms: Diesel train noise
• Subject Areas: Environment; Law; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00008980
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 22 1972 12:00AM