[PDF] Top 20 Transportation noise and annoyance related to road traffic in the French RECORD study

... between road traffic noise exposure in the residential neighborhood (75th percentile) and annoyance due to road traffic was stronger in the most affluent and high educated ... See full document

... this study was to examine the association between exposure to high traffic noise levels in housing and the proportion of high annoyance and self-perceived health problems, through a survey ... See full document

... The study population was taken from two different sur- veys conducted in the Scania region, ...on road traffic and railway noise exposure levels using a simplified version of the Nordic ... See full document

... Vehicular noise is one of the most prevalent forms of pollution. Traffic noise annoyance has become a major issue with the advent of fossil fuels and development in vehicle ...Vehicular ... See full document

... higher noise level in the town is due to rapid and unplanned urbanization resulting in great influx of people from all parts of the region and country, improper management of town roads and traffics, lack of ... See full document

... Nowadays transportation noise becomes a major ...cars. Road traffic has been the major source of ...of noise to outside from a vehicle has been different from the generation of ... See full document

... to road works, improve quality of life and faster travel could be carried ...and noise impacts in future, more plantations of trees on road side and development of green belts could be carried ... See full document

... by Road (ADR), that are divided into classes: explosives, gases, flammable liquids, solid hazardous materials, self-reactive substances, and solid desensitized explosives, spontaneously self-flammable substances, ... See full document

... The study reports community noise levels measured during day time in a fast developing semi-urban area of ...the study suggests control measures to be instituted on a priority (Murthy et ...The ... See full document

... Pertinently, to further elucidate the relationship between noise exposure and health, the study relates noise-induced annoyance to HRQOL in both urban aviation noise and rural wind turbi[r] ... See full document

... Although road vehicles are neither Omni-direc- tional nor point sources a similar attenuation function can be obtained in the far field for isolated vehicle noise propagating over a hard reflecting ground ... See full document

... two French cities with a questionnaire that included semantic scales, each followed by an open question relating to the semantic scale response ...precisely study the referred object or situation in order ... See full document

... rail traffic noise had residential address outside a radius of 700 m from a rail- way line and 300 m for trams and metros, since outside these radii, the rail traffic noise is either ... See full document

... The degree is 67% to 100% with general %age of 96%. Regardless, % of such people in age social affair of >60 years is intangibly lower. Larger piece of respondents across finished different ages clusters feel that car ... See full document

... of road traffic ...hamper road traffic movements in this region and also contribute to road traffic ...of road traffic accidents. Thus, this retrospective ... See full document

... that transportation affects every human being in the course of his daily activities and it is difficult to conceive a situation where transportation does not play significant role in the life of any ... See full document

... Swedish doctors warn that traffic noise in metropolises can seriously endanger health and shorten the life expectancy of a modern man. The most endagered is the health of those who live near busy and noisy ... See full document

... Buffer zones are undeveloped, open spaces which border a highway. Buffer zones are created when a highway agency purchases land or development rights, in addition to the normal right- of-way, so that future dwellings ... See full document

... of noise source in relation to reverberation time, Mershon et ...of noise sources than those in settings with shorter reverberation time ...graphic noise representation on a large scale in the urban ... See full document

... parks, annoyance of this park's visitors from the soundscape was ―a little‖ for ...the annoyance from the sound level of an unpleasant sound (traffic noise), prevailing in the soundscape, was ... See full document