Temporal and spatial variability of traffic-related noise in the City of Toronto, Canada

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 472, Issue , 2014, Pages 1100-1107

  Zuo, Fei ^a,b   Li, Ye ^a,b   Johnson, Steven ^a   Johnson, James ^a   Varughese, Sunil ^a   Copes, Ray ^a,b   Liu, Fuan ^c   Wu, Hao Jiang ^d   Hou, Rebecca ^b   Chen, Hong ^a,b,e  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d WorkSafeBC   (Canada)

^e INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Field measurement; Spatial variability; Temporal variability; Traffic noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CORRELATION METHODS; LOCATION;

CONTINUOUS MEASUREMENTS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TRAFFIC NOISE;

NOISE POLLUTION;

MEASUREMENT METHOD; NOISE POLLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; INDUSTRIAL AREA; LAND USE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND INTENSITY; TRAFFIC NOISE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

A-WEIGHTED SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; AIC; AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVA; CANADIAN COMMUNITY HEALTH SURVEY; CCHS; CI; CREDIBLE INTERVAL; DBA; DIGITAL MAPPING TECHNOLOGIES INC.; DMTI; EU; EUROPEAN UNION; FIELD MEASUREMENT; INLA; INTEGRATED NESTED LAPLACE APPROXIMATION; L(EQ) (T), L(EQ) 16H, L(EQ) 8H, L(EQ) 1H; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MCMC; MOE; SLM; SOUND LEVEL METERS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; THE A-WEIGHTED LEVEL OF A STEADY SOUND CARRYING THE SAME TOTAL ENERGY IN THE TIME PERIOD T AS THE OBSERVED FLUCTUATING SOUND. THE TIME PERIOD T IS GIVEN IN HOURS; THE MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT; TRAFFIC NOISE; UNITED STATES; US; WHO; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; ONTARIO; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890861725     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.11.138     Document Type: Article

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