MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTION OF ANNOYANCE CAUSED BY TIME-VARYING HIGHWAY NOISE

Twenty-eight audiologically normal adult subjects participated in a study designed to assess how well six noise-rating indices would predict the annoyance caused by 3-min recorded samples of traffic noise obtained from both nominally constant-speed and stop-and-go traffic. The study was performed in a laboratory simulating a home environment. Annoyance judgments were obtained through the use of a magnitude estimation technique involving a 10-point scale. Subjects were also asked if they could accept each of the 24 traffic sounds if heard on a regular basis in their homes. Data obtained indicate that the simpler noise-rating indices, such as the average sound level and the level exceeded 10% of the time, predict annoyance as well as, if not better than, complicated schemes incorporating a measure of either variability or rate-of-change of levels with time. Thus it appears that the measurement and computational burdens associated with these complicated schemes are unwarranted.

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  Acoustical Society of America

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• Authors:
  • Yaniv, S L
  • Danner, W F
  • Bauer, J W
• Publication Date: 1982-7

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 200-207
• Serial:
  • Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Acoustical Society of America
  • ISSN: 0001-4966
  • Serial URL: http://asadl.org/jasa/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Annoyance; Forecasting; Measurement; Ratings; Traffic noise
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00379557
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-034 919
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 30 1983 12:00AM