Noise reduction in urban LRT networks by combining track based solutions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 568, Issue , 2016, Pages 1344-1354

  Vogiatzis, Konstantinos ^a   Vanhonacker, Patrick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b I MOSS NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Environmental noise; European Directive 2002 49 EC; Metro noise; Noise absorption

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE ABSORPTION; CONCRETE SLABS; NOISE ABATEMENT; RAILROAD TRACKS; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; SUBWAYS; VEHICLE WHEELS; WHEELS;

CALCULATION PROCEDURE; ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE; EUROPEAN DIRECTIVE; EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION; MAINTENANCE SCHEMES; METRO NOISE; MITIGATION MEASURES; NOISE ABSORPTION;

LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT;

LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM; METRO SYSTEM; NOISE; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOFTWARE; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; GREECE; LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NOISE BARRIER; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAIL DAMPER; RAILWAY; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; TRACK ABSORBING PANEL; TRAFFIC NOISE; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

EID: 84930015701     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.05.060     Document Type: Article

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