Interference of speech and interior noise of chinese high-speed trains with task performance

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 790-799

  Wei, Weigang ^a   Bockstael, Annelies ^a   De Coensel, Bert ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND NOISE; HIGH SPEED TRAIN (HST); HIGH SPEED TRAINS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INTERIOR NOISE; LONG-TRAVEL; MODEL-BASED OPC; SPEECH SOUNDS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

RAILROAD CARS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS;

VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84866563968     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3813/AAA.918560     Document Type: Article

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