An Intensive Survey on Community Response to Sonic Environment in a Residential–industrial Mixed Use Area

Minoura, Kazuya; Hiramatsu, Ken; Matsui, Tetsuya; Takagi, Kazuyoshi; Oi, Ko

doi:10.1006/jsvi.1997.1015

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“…However, vehicle horn use has been markedly reduced as a result of police crackdowns on inappropriate horn use. Nowadays, the vehicle horn is not particularly mentioned as a noise source in social surveys on road traffic noise in Japan [7][8][9][10].…”

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Questionnaire survey on vehicle horn use and its effects on drivers and pedestrians

Takada

Fukuda

Iwamiya

2013

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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The Japanese Road Traffic Law states that a vehicle horn should be used only in an emergency or in dangerous locations where a horn sign has been installed. However, drivers frequently use their vehicle horn as a signal when passing each other. Furthermore, pedestrians and cyclists are also honked at by drivers. There may be a negative effect of vehicle horn use on people outside the vehicle. Therefore, a questionnaire survey was carried out to ascertain the current circumstances of vehicle horn use. Respondents were asked about the latest or last-remembered instance of horn use in various situations, both when they were driving and when they were pedestrians. With regard to experiences of being honked at by another driver, the questionnaire included questions concerning place, traffic volume, the aim of horn use, the timing pattern of horn use, and the respondent's psychological reaction when honked at by another driver. It was found that drivers briefly honked their horn to express gratitude, or to gain another's attention, in various places. Long honks such as one long honk or two long honks mostly evoked negative psychological reactions in drivers, such as a feeling that the sound of the horn was startling, noisy, or irritating. Furthermore, pedestrians frequently had negative psychological reactions to horns used to gain their attention or to alert them to danger. More than 40% of nondrivers were displeased with the volume and sound quality of horns.

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Questionnaire survey on vehicle horn use and its effects on drivers and pedestrians

Takada

Fukuda

Iwamiya

2013

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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“…Given the complexity of the sound scene, many aspects of data collection and research are usually carried out for the objective sound environment (Physical acoustic angle) [32][33][34][35][36] and subjective sound scene perception (Psychoacoustic angle) [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44]. However, in the field of road transportation, the research on the former is relatively rich, and the research progress is shown in Table 1.…”

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A systematic literature review on research and progress of road traffic soundscape

Wang

Wangari

Yang

et al. 2022

International Conference on Smart Transportation and City Engineering (STCE 2022)

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The rapid development of road traffic generates extreme noise pollution. The current development trend from noise control by simply reducing the noise level to overall soundscape design has brought revolutionary progress in the field of road traffic sound environment. This paper reviews the current situation of road traffic soundscape research. First, it systematically analyzes the development trend and hot keywords of road traffic soundscape and its related literature with the bibliometric method. It compares the development history of the road traffic soundscape from many aspects, such as concept, research framework and model, research method. It summarizes the research hotspots of road traffic sound landscape. Secondly, from the road traffic soundscape negative design (eliminating the existing bad soundscape as the basis) and positive design (creating a harmonious sound environment), the application and research on road traffic sound landscape are reviewed. A relatively complete set of road traffic sound landscape design methods is explored to create a good audio-visual context along the road, enhance and improve people's audio-visual comfort, and meet people's audio-visual feelings and health. Finally, the current situation and challenges of existing research are systematically summarized, and the future development direction and research trends of road traffic sound landscape are analyzed from standardized research system innovation, effective combination of research and practice, and exploration of quantitative design methods.

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“…Soundscape research offers av ariety of data collection methods to study the auditory experience by relying on qualitative,f ree verbalizations (including openended questions in questionnaires, interviews, commented soundwalks -s ee [56,10] for reviews), as well as approaches for analysing the resulting written corpus (e.g. grounded theory methodology [57] or content analysis method [58]; for adifference between the two, see [59]). In this study,wedeveloped aquestionnaire with aset of four open-ended questions, to study the potential relationships between categories of activities emerging from the data and the descriptions of auditory environments coded at semantic and syntactic levels.…”

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An Exploratory Study on the Influence of Activities on Public Space Users' Descriptions of Their Auditory Environments on Site: The Case of Amsterdam

Bild¹,

Pfeffer²,

Coler³

et al. 2019

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

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This paper is an exploration into whether public space users performing different activities describe their auditory environments in noticeably different ways. Building on soundscape and psycholinguistic literature, aq uestionnaire study wasconducted in alarge park in Amsterdam (NL),where 92 park users described, in writing, their activities and auditory environments. Users' self-reported activities were categorized based on their levelofsocial interaction (solitary vs. socially interactive), and using open coding, generating categories of activities grouped by semantic range. The written corpus on auditory environment descriptions wasa nalysed through ap roposed classificatory framework, coding descriptions at three semantic and one syntactic level. We preliminarily tested whether there are associations between various categories of activities and of auditory environment descriptions, categorized at different levels. Our results suggest that, while for detailed levels of activity categorization there were no non-distinct patterns, the levelo fs ocial interaction of users' activities has an observable effect over users' descriptions of their auditory environments. This holds particularly in relation to types of sounds listed, as well as for differences in descriptions at asyntactic level. These findings point towards subtly different auditory experiences in the same public space for users performing solitary or socially interactive activities.

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An Intensive Survey on Community Response to Sonic Environment in a Residential–industrial Mixed Use Area

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Questionnaire survey on vehicle horn use and its effects on drivers and pedestrians

Questionnaire survey on vehicle horn use and its effects on drivers and pedestrians

A systematic literature review on research and progress of road traffic soundscape

An Exploratory Study on the Influence of Activities on Public Space Users' Descriptions of Their Auditory Environments on Site: The Case of Amsterdam

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