Comparative field studies on the effects of railway and road traffic noise

39th International Congress on Noise Control Engineering 2010, INTER-NOISE 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1660-1668

  Ohrstrom E ^a   Gidlof Gunnarsson A ^a   Ogren M ^b   Jerson, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

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

^c WSP Environmental   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Noise annoyance; Railway; Road traffic; Sleep disturbance

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS; FIELD STUDIES; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; NOISE ANNOYANCE; NOISE SOURCE; RAILWAY; RAILWAY NOISE; RAILWAY TRAFFIC; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; ROAD TRAFFIC; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SLEEP DISTURBANCES; SLEEP QUALITY; SOCIO-ACOUSTIC; SOUND LEVEL;

NOISE POLLUTION; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84868653916     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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