Acoustic Background and Transport Noise in Urbanised Areas: A Note on the Relative Classification of the City Soundscape
A city soundscape can be defined as a conflation of elementary noise sources. This paper analyses the interaction between background noise and transport noise in urban areas and proposes a new classification of city soundscape. This relative classification is based on two principal sources of noise in urbanized areas: background and transport noise. This systematic categorization of urban areas was drawn up in two tiers: areas where the influence of the acoustic background on total noise varies and areas where the influence of transport on urban noise varies. Five types of urban soundscape are proposed: from very quiet area to very loud area. In extreme cases, the cumulative influence of background noise and transport noise can cause a change of category of urban space.
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Authors:
- Lebiedowska, Barbara
- Publication Date: 2005-7
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 341-345
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
- Volume: 10
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 1361-9209
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13619209
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Acoustics; Classification; Noise sources; Transportation; Urban areas
- Uncontrolled Terms: Soundscape
- Subject Areas: Design; Environment; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01002687
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 1 2005 8:04AM