The extent of annoyance caused by road trac noise was investigated in 15 areas with a varying number of vehicles and dierent distances between the trac and houses. The goal was to compare two principles for expressing noise exposure. One was based on the conventional energy equivalent value in terms
ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE ANNOYANCE AND WINDOW ORIENTATION IN DWELLINGS
✍ Scribed by R. RYLANDER; M. BJÖRKMAN
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 142 KB
- Volume
- 249
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-460X
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