Possible relation of noise levels in streets to the population of the municipalities in which they are located

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Barrigón, J Miguel ^a   Escobar, Valentín Gómez ^a   Gozalo, Guillermo Rey ^a   Vílchez Gómez, Rosendo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS; UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES;

CATEGORIZATION METHODS; INHABITED AREAS; NOISE LEVELS; POPULATION SIZES; THREE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; URBAN NOISE; URBAN SITE; URBAN STRUCTURE;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 77955808750     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3453417     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. ANSI/ASA S12.9-1993 (2008). " American National Standard Quantities and Procedures for Description and Measurement of Environmental Sound, Part 3, Short-Term Measurements with an Observer Present.," (American National Standards Institute, New York).
2. Barrigón Morillas, J. M., Gómez Escobar, V., Ḿndez Sierra, J. A., Vílchez-Gómez, R., and Trujillo Carmona, J. (2002). " An environmental noise study in the city of Cáceres, Spain.," Appl. Acoust. AACOBL 0003-682X 63, 1061-1070. 10.1016/S0003- 682X(02)00030-0 (Pubitemid 34772013)
3. Barrigón Morillas, J. M., Gómez Escobar, V., Ḿndez Sierra, J. A., Vílchez-Gómez, R., Vaquero Martínez, J. M., and Trujillo Carmona, J. (2005). " A categorization method applied to the study of urban road traffic noise.," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. JASMAN 0001-4966 117, 2844-2852. 10.1121/1.1889437 (Pubitemid 40675151)
4. Brown, A. L., and Lam, K. C. (1987). " Urban noise surveys.," Appl. Acoust. AACOBL 0003-682X 20, 23-39. 10.1016/0003-682X(87)90081-8 (Pubitemid 17012764)
5. COM (2002). " EU Directive on the Assessment and Management of Environmental Noise (END).," The European parliament and the Council of the European Union, Brussels.
6. European Environment Agency (EEA) (2009). " Transport at a crossroads. TERM 2008: indicators tracking transport and environment in the European.," Report No. 3/2009, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Copenhagen.
7. Galloway, W. J., Eldred, K. McK., and Simpson, M. A. (1974). " Population distribution of the United States as a function of outdoor noise level.," EPA Report No. 550/9-74-009, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC.
8. ISO 1996-2:2003 (2003). " Description, measurement and assessment of environmental noise. Part 1: Basic quantities and assessment procedures.," International Organization for Standardization, Switzerland.
9. ISO 1996-2:2007 (2007). " Description, measurement and assessment of environmental noise. Part 2: Determination of environmental noise levels.," International Organization for Standardization, Switzerland.
10. Steele, C. (2001). " A critical review of some traffic noise prediction models.," Appl. Acoust. AACOBL 0003-682X 62, 271-287. 10.1016/S0003-682X(00)00030-X (Pubitemid 32035152)
11. Stewart, C. M., Russel, W. A., and Luz, G. A. (1999). " Can population density be used to determine ambient noise levels?," in 137th Meeting ASA, Forum Acusticum, Berlin, Germany.
12. World Health Organization (WHO) (2004). " Environmental health indicators for Europe. A pilot indicator-based report.," WHO, Geneva.