Statistics of road traffic noise levels in shielded urban areas

Turkish Acoustical Society - 36th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2007 ISTANBUL

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1021-1026

  Forssén, Jens ^a   Hornikx, Maarten ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-WEIGHTED LEVEL; ACCURATE PREDICTION; BAND LEVELS; COMMUNITY NOISE; MAXIMUM LEVELS; NOISE IMMISSIONS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE SOURCE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POISSON PROCESS; RAY MODELS; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SOUND PROPAGATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TIME VARIATIONS; TRAFFIC NOISE; URBAN AREAS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXHIBITIONS; NOISE POLLUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84873965712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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