Exposure-response relationships for annoyance due to freight and passenger railway vibration exposure in residential environments

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 205-212

  Sharp, Calum ^a   Woodcock, James ^a   Sica, Gennaro ^a   Peris, Eulalia ^a   Moorhouse, Andrew T ^a   Waddington, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL VIBRATIONS; EXPOSURE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; FREQUENCY CONTENTS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELING; RAILWAY VIBRATION; RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT; SIGNAL PROPERTIES; VIBRATION EXPOSURE;

HOUSES; RAILROADS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

RAILS;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEARING; HOUSING; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; PROCEDURES; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAILWAY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TRAFFIC NOISE; URBAN POPULATION; VIBRATION;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HOUSING; HUMANS; IRRITABLE MOOD; LOGISTIC MODELS; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RAILROADS; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VIBRATION;

EID: 84893276409     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4836115     Document Type: Article

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