Experimental study of traffic noise and human response in an urban area: Deviations from standard annoyance predictions

INTERNOISE 2014 - 43rd International Congress on Noise Control Engineering: Improving the World Through Noise Control

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Salomons, Erik M ^a   Janssen, Sabine A ^a   Verhagen, Henk L M ^a   Wessels, Peter W ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human response; Measurements; Traffic noise

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; MEASUREMENTS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RAILINGS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS; SURVEYS;

FREIGHT TRAINS; HUMAN RESPONSE; NOISE MEASUREMENTS; NOISE MODELING; RAIL TRAFFIC; REGRESSION METHOD; SLEEP DISTURBANCES; TRAFFIC NOISE;

NOISE POLLUTION;

EID: 84923618666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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