Statistics of A-weighted road traffic noise levels in shielded Urban areas

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 998-1008

  Forssén, Jens ^a   Hornikx, Maarten ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; NOISE ABATEMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON PROCESS; RAY MODEL;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 33845960802     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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