A categorization method applied to the study of urban road traffic noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 2844-2852

  Barrigón Morillas, Juan Miguel ^a   Gómez Escobar, Valentín ^a   Méndez Sierra, Juan Antonio ^a   Vílchez Gómez, Rosendo ^a   Vaquero, José M ^a   Trujillo Carmona, José ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROADS AND STREETS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; VEHICLES;

NOISE INDEX; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUND INTENSITY; SPAIN; TECHNIQUE; TRAFFIC NOISE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 18744407027     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1889437     Document Type: Article

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