Statistical assessment of environmental noise generated by road traffic

Transport

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 96-105

  Jagniatinskis, Aleksandras ^a   Fiks, Boris ^a   Mickaitis, Marius ^a  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Environmental noise; Histograms; Measurements; Percentiles; Short term assessment; Statistical analysis; Urban traffic noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; ACOUSTICS; ESTIMATION; FIRE ALARM SYSTEMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; MEASUREMENTS; NOISE POLLUTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLLUTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND INSULATION; STABILITY CRITERIA; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSPORTATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; HISTOGRAMS; PERCENTILES; SHORT TERM; URBAN TRAFFIC NOISE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 79957647495     PISSN: 16484142     EISSN: 16483480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3846/16484142.2011.568084     Document Type: Article

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