Development of an open-source road traffic noise model for exposure assessment

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 74, Issue , 2015, Pages 183-193

  Gulliver, John ^a   Morley, David ^a   Vienneau, Danielle ^b,c   Fabbri, Federico ^a   Bell, Margaret ^c   Goodman, Paul ^d   Beevers, Sean ^e   Dajnak, David ^e   J Kelly, Frank ^e   Fecht, Daniela ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; GIS; LAeq; Noise pollution; PostgreSQL; Road traffic

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SYSTEMS; POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRANSPORTATION;

AIR POLLUTION MODELLING; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; LAEQ; POSTGRESQL; PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE; ROAD TRAFFIC; STANDARD DEVIATION; TRAFFIC INFORMATION;

NOISE POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GIS; NOISE POLLUTION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ENGLAND; LEICESTER [ENGLAND]; NORFOLK [ENGLAND]; NORWICH; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84938671061     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2014.12.022     Document Type: Article

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