Evaluation of road traffic noise abatement by vegetation treatment in a 1:10 urban scale model

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3884-3895

  Jang, Hyung Suk ^a   Lee, Sung Chan ^a   Jeon, Jin Yong ^a   Kang, Jian ^b  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACADES; FORESTRY; FREQUENCY BANDS; NOISE POLLUTION; ROOFS; VEGETATION;

HIGH FREQUENCY BANDS; HIGH-FREQUENCY SOUNDS; INTEGRATED EFFECTS; LOW-FREQUENCY NOISE; ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE; SOUND PROPAGATION; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; URBAN SCALE MODELS;

NOISE ABATEMENT;

ACOUSTICS; CAR; CITY PLANNING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; HUMAN; MOTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TRAFFIC NOISE; TREE;

ACOUSTICS; AUTOMOBILES; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; MOTION; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TREES;

EID: 84953293906     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4937769     Document Type: Article

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