Are vehicles driven in electric mode so quiet that they need acoustic warning signals?

20th International Congress on Acoustics 2010, ICA 2010 - Incorporating Proceedings of the 2010 Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 1835-1845

  Sandberg, Ulf ^a   Goubert, Luc ^b   Mioduszewski, Piotr ^c  

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

^b Belgian Road Research Centre   (Belgium)

^c GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NOISE; AT-SPEED; COMBUSTION ENGINES; CRITICAL REVIEW; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE VEHICLES; LIGHT VEHICLES; LIMIT VALUES; LOW SPEED; NOISE EMISSIONS; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; POWER UNITS; ROAD VEHICLES; SAFETY HAZARDS; SAFETY PROBLEMS; STANDARD METHOD; TRAFFIC SAFETY; URBAN AREAS; VEHICLE FLEETS; WARNING SIGNALS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84869113050     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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