Railway noise annoyance and the importance of number of trains, ground vibration, and building situational factors

Noise and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 59, 2012, Pages 190-201

  Gidlöf Gunnarsson, Anita ^a   Ögren, Mikael ^b   Jerson, Tomas ^c   Öhrström, Evy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Transport Research Institute   (Sweden)

^c WSP Environmental Acoustics   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Annoyance; railway noise; situational factors; vibrations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RAILWAY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC NOISE; VIBRATION;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOUSING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; SWEDEN; VIBRATION;

EID: 84866641905     PISSN: 14631741     EISSN: 19984030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.99895     Document Type: Article

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