Road traffic noise levels, restrictions and annoyance in Greater Cairo, Egypt

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 815-823

  Ali, S A ^a   Tamura, A ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annoyance; Restrictions; Road traffic noise

Indexed keywords

GROUND VEHICLES; NOISE ABATEMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; REGIONAL PLANNING;

ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0038710884     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-682X(03)00031-8     Document Type: Article

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