The performance of noise barriers in attenuating road traffic noise

Acoustics Bulletin

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 23-29

  Parnell, Jeffrey ^a   Samuels, Stephen ^b,c   Tsitsos, Con ^d  

^a New South Wales Department of Corrective Services   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c TEF Consulting   (Australia)

^d NSW Roads and Traffic Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARRIER DESIGN; EMPIRICAL TESTING; MEASUREMENT POINTS; NEW SOUTH WALES; NOISE BARRIERS; RANDOM EDGES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; STATE GOVERNMENTS; STUDY SITES; TRAFFIC NOISE; VIDEO FOOTAGE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; MICROPHONES;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EID: 77952846405     PISSN: 0308437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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