The influence of visual characteristics of barriers on railway noise perception

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 445-446, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-47

  Maffei, Luigi ^a   Masullo, Massimiliano ^a   Aletta, Francesco ^a   Di Gabriele, Maria ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Audio video interaction; Immersive Virtual Reality; Noise barriers; Noise perception; Railway noise

Indexed keywords

AUDIO VIDEOS; IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY; NOISE BARRIERS; NOISE PERCEPTION; RAILWAY NOISE;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; NOISE POLLUTION; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

LABORATORY METHOD; NOISE POLLUTION; PERCEPTION; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY; RAILWAY;

ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY RESPONSE; HEARING; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LOUDNESS; NOISE POLLUTION; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISIBILITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTITUDE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NOISE; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RAILROADS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84872422408     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.025     Document Type: Article

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