AN INVESTIGATION OF THE EFFECT OF FREEWAY TRAFFIC NOISE ON APARTMENT RENTS

NOISE LEVEL AND RENTAL RATES OF 38 APARTMENTS LOCATED NEAR THE BANFIELD OR BALDOCK FREEWAYS IN THE PORTLAND URBAN AREA WERE INVESTIGATED. DATA ANALYSIS RESULTED IN THE CONCLUSION THAT FREEWAY TRAFFIC NOISE HAD LITTLE, IF ANY, EFFECT ON APARTMENT RATES. THE PRECISE EFFECT OF NOISE AND OTHER DETERMINANTS WAS MEASURED IN TERMS OF SIGNIFICANCE, AMOUNT, AND ACCURACY. FIFTEEN STEPWISE REGRESSIONS WERE MADE. NOISE HAD NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECT AS DETERMINED BY APARTMENT RENTALS AND UNITS ON THE FIRST STORY OR THE FIRST THREE FLOORS OF APARTMENT BUILDINGS. THE EFFECT WAS SMALL ON THOSE UNITS ABOVE. THE FOLLOWING CONCLUSIONS WERE REACHED' /1/ APARTMENT OCCUPANTS MAY ENDURE THE TRAFFIC NOISE BECAUSE ITS EFFECT IS OFFSET BY THE UTILITY OF OTHER DETERMINANTS, /2/ FREEWAY TRAFFIC NOISE HAD SOME EFFECT ON RENT DIFFERENCES WHEN COMBINED WITH OTHER, SIGNIFICANT DETERMINANTS, /3/ NIGHTTIME TRAFFIC NOISE WAS HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT FOR UNITS LOCATED IN STORIES 4 AND ABOVE.

• Corporate Authors:

  Oregon Department of Transportation

  Highway Division, 325 13th Street, NE, Room 605
  Salem, OR  United States  97310

  Bureau of Public Roads /US

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Towne, Robin M. & Associates Inc.

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  ,   United States 
• Publication Date: 1926

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Apartment buildings; Costs; Dwellings; Freeways; Leasing; Night; Regression analysis; Traffic noise
• Old TRIS Terms: Multifamily dwellings
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Finance; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222553
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Apr 20 1994 12:00AM