Issues in the measurement of sleep-related noise events in road traffic streams

Annual Conference of the Australian Acoustical Society 2013, Acoustics 2013: Science, Technology and Amenity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 223-227

  Brown, A L ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOISE POLLUTION; SLEEP RESEARCH;

DESCRIPTORS; EFFECTS OF TRAFFIC NOISE; NOISE EVENTS; RAIL TRAFFIC; ROAD TRAFFIC; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SLEEP DISTURBANCES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84903827257     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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