DECIDING ON NOISE BARRIERS
This paper considers the effect of transportation noise on residents living adjacent to roads and railways, together with the likely response of people to new roads and railways. It then describes the methods used by the United Kingdom Department of Transport for assessing the effects of a new road on the environment. The criteria used in the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom to assess where noise barriers are to be provided are also presented briefly. In the United Kingdom the decision about whether to provide a barrier is entirely commercial. Three methods have been identified: a) a cost benefit analysis balancing the cost of barriers and their noise insulating properties; b) a cost benefit analysis which includes house price depreciation; and c) a subjective assessment by the design engineers at the design stage as to what noise mitigation should be provided. Examples of each method are provided, including a table giving costs of noise mitigation when using four different barrier heights. For the covering abstract of the conference see IRRD 856674.
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Corporate Authors:
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
1 Birdcage Walk
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Authors:
- HOOD, R A
- Publication Date: 1990
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 10 p.
- Serial:
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Attitudes; Benefit cost analysis; Conferences; Noise barriers; Sound level
- Uncontrolled Terms: Decreases
- Geographic Terms: France; Germany; Netherlands; United Kingdom
- ITRD Terms: 2267: Attitude (psychol); 8525: Conference; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 9009: Decrease; 8036: France; 8125: Germany; 8078: Netherlands; 2886: Noise barrier; 6747: Sound level; 8119: United Kingdom
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00635373
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Sep 21 1993 12:00AM