The concept of virtual reference pavement for noise prediction and comparison purposes

Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA - 35th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2006

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 440-449

  Sandberg, Ulf ^a,b  

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

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA COLLECTION; EUROPEAN STANDARDS; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS; GRADING CURVE; LOW NOISE; MAXIMUM AGGREGATE SIZES; MEASURED RESULTS; NOISE DATA; NOISE EMISSIONS; NOISE PREDICTIONS; NOISE REDUCING; TRAFFIC NOISE MODELS; VIRTUAL REFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; EXHIBITIONS; NOISE ABATEMENT;

PAVEMENTS;

EID: 84867962679     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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6. FHWA Traffic Noise Model (TNM) Version 2.5. For a summary and further information, refer to http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/resourcecenter/teams/environment/ env-4tnm.pdf The FHWA TNM is being distributed by the McTrans Center at the University of Florida, 2088 Northeast Waldo Road, Gainesville, FL 32609, USA (2005).
7. Development of Reference Energy Mean Emission Level (REMEL) for the FHWA Traffic Noise Model (TNM), Version 1.0, Fleming, Gregg G., Amanda S. Rapoza, and Cynthia S.Y. Lee, Report Nos. FHWA-PD-96-008 and DOT-VNTSC-FHWA-96-2, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Acoustics Facility, Cambridge, MA, USA (November 1995).
8. Personal communication with Ms Cynthia Lee, at John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Acoustics Facility, Cambridge, MA, USA (2001 & 2006).