Performance of FHWA model for predicting traffic noise: A case study of metropolitan city, Lucknow (India)

Transport

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 234-240

  Shukla, Arvind Kumar ^a   Jain, Sukhvir Singh ^b   Parida, Manoranjan ^b   Srivastava, Jyoti Bhushan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Ambient noise pollution; Buffer zones; Equivalent noise level; FHWA model; Noise barriers

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CRASHWORTHINESS; FORECASTING; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; LAND USE; POLLUTION;

BUFFER ZONES; FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; HEAVY TRAFFICS; METROPOLITAN CITIES; NOISE BARRIERS; NOISE LEVELS; TRAFFIC VOLUMES; TRANSPORT ACTIVITY;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EID: 70349591172     PISSN: 16484142     EISSN: 16483480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/1648-4142.2009.24.234-240     Document Type: Article

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