Effects of railway noise and vibrations on sleep - Experimental studies within the Swedish research program TVANE

8th European Conference on Noise Control 2009, EURONOISE 2009 - Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 31, Issue PART 3, 2009, Pages

  Ögren, Mikael ^a   Öhrström, Evy ^b   Gidlöf Gunnarsson, Anita ^b  

^a SWEDISH NATIONAL ROAD AND TRANSPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HIGH NOISE LEVELS; INTERACTION EFFECT; LOWER NOISE; NOISE BARRIERS; NOISE LEVELS; RAILWAY NOISE; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SLEEP DISTURBANCES; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP STUDIES; VIBRATION AMPLITUDE; VIBRATION LEVEL;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; NOISE POLLUTION; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; SURVEYS;

SLEEP RESEARCH;

EID: 84864708262     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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