The impact of road traffic noise on urban protected areas: A landscape modeling approach

The authors modeled the propagation of traffic noise over the landscape and analyzed its impact on the structure and configuration of protected areas of the Twin Cities Metro Region, Minnesota. Using four noise thresholds, the authors found that at low and medium noise levels, 19% and 11% of the protected areas are within the road-effect zone. Using mean patch area and patch shape index, we measured the acoustic fragmentation of habitats. The authors found that at higher levels of noise patch shape index increased, while mean patch size decreased. The acoustic diversity of a patch is also found to be correlated with land cover type, patch area, and patch shape.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2013.04.006
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361920913000692
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Nega, Tsegaye
  • Yaffe, Nathan
  • Stewart, Nate
  • Fu, Wei-Hsin
• Publication Date: 2013-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 98-104
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1361-9209
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13619209

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Environmental impacts; Habitat (Ecology); Traffic noise; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Environmentally sensitive areas
• Geographic Terms: Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (Minnesota)
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01491623
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 30 2013 12:30PM