On the choice between walls and berms for road traffic noise shielding including wind effects

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 199-210

  Van Renterghem, Timothy ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Earth berms; Noise barriers; Noise wall; Road traffic noise; Wind

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; NOISE POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; SHIELDING; WIND; WIND EFFECTS;

EARTH BERMS; NOISE BARRIERS; NOISE WALL; NUMERICAL COMPARISON; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SOUND PROPAGATION; STEEPER SLOPES; VERTICAL GRADIENTS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MAGNITUDE; NOISE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOUND PROPAGATION; TERRAIN; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84858006932     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.12.017     Document Type: Article

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