Annoyance caused by road traffic noise with and without horn sounds

Acoustical Science and Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 327-337

  Phan, Hai Anh Thi ^a   Yano, Takashi ^b   Phan, Hai Yen Thi ^b   Nishimura, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sato, Tetsumi ^c   Hashimoto, Yoritaka ^d  

^a SOJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HOKKAI GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Annoyance; Cross culture; Horn sound; Road traffic noise

Indexed keywords

ANNOYANCE; CROSS-CULTURE; HORN SOUND; NOISE ANNOYANCE; PSYCHOACOUSTIC EXPERIMENTS; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; VIET NAM;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ROADS AND STREETS;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EID: 70349135581     PISSN: 13463969     EISSN: 13475177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1250/ast.30.327     Document Type: Article

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