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
The differing annoyance levels of rail and road traffic noise
β Scribed by V. Knall; R. Schuemer
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 419 KB
- Volume
- 87
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-460X
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