Statistics of road traffic noise in shielded urban areas: An initial study of a-weighted levels

EURONOISE 2006 - The 6th European Conference on Noise Control: Advanced Solutions for Noise Control

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Forssén, Jens ^a   Hornikx, Maarten ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-WEIGHTED LEVEL; COMMUNITY NOISE; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; NOISE DESCRIPTORS; NOISE LEVELS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; POISSON PROCESS; RAY-TRACING MODEL; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SOUND PROPAGATION; TIME VARIATIONS; TRAFFIC FLOW; URBAN AREAS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NOISE POLLUTION; NUMERICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL;

EID: 84872501893     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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