Assessment of Train Noise at Platforms in Underground Metro Stations

Younes, Mohamed N.; Heikal, Ali Z.; Kotb, Akram S.; Zohny, Haytham N.

doi:10.2478/cee-2021-0014

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“…Noise is generally known as an unpleasant sound that causes a disturbance or demonstrates psychological and physiological issues. Many types of ambient noise, such as industrial and traffic noises [1], are endangering the human body by causing hearing loss, stress, sleep disturbances [2], pain, mental disorders, cardiovascular disease and social cohesion [3]. In accordance with the universal call to action to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for good health and wellbeing, noise reduction is extremely crucial nowadays as the world's population grows and urbanization increases.…”

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Trend of Sound Absorption Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Khalid

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

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The growing world population and urbanization have worsened noise pollution, driving the development of sound absorption (SA) research across the globe. This study aims to analyse the SA global research trends and discover the opportunities for future development or collaboration using systematic bibliometric analysis. A total of 2970 articles since 1913 were systematically retrieved. Results reveal that the most productive journal had taken 10.3 % of the total publications. A high correlation r = 0.87 was found between the number of co-authorship and the h-index of a scholar. China has the highest number of publications 55.3 % and most research focused on porous materials. Present findings could be helpful to further develop SA from a global level perspective.

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Trend of Sound Absorption Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Supporting a decision for metro station restoration based on facility assessment: application to Cairo metro stations

Mohamed

2022

J. Eng. Appl. Sci.

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Subway stations play a significant role in big cities today. This research aims to develop an integrated system that makes the best use of the budgets allocated for the rehabilitation of Cairo metro stations, based on stations condition assessment. The main problem is the lack of accurate assessment and decision-making optimization tools for Cairo metro stations condition. This, in turn, adversely affects the stations selected for rehabilitation and, thus, the misdirection (non-optimal) of the budgets allocated to the development of these stations. The appropriate methods and techniques of collecting and analyzing data are applied. They were collected from the reviewed literature concerning subway station facility management systems, as well as experts in the field. Data collection was followed by the analytic hierarchical process (AHP) and linear programming/integer programming and ended with the selection of stations prior to restoration or maintenance depending on the available budget or capital program. This system would be helpful in subway stations facilities decision-making by the concerned authorities like NAT (National Authority of Tunnels) or Cairo Metro Co. This system was applied to a sample of Cairo metro stations and concluded with some results. The first of them is reducing and optimizing the great allocated budgets by using the developed model. Another result is that the most important factors influencing the evaluation of the metro station are the structure, architecture, and hydromechanics, respectively.

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Sleep Disturbance and Noise Annoyance and Environmental Noise Exposure in Residents of Two Major Slovakian Cities

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Civil and Environmental Engineering

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The significant growth in traffic density in Slovakia, combined with the country’s economic change, has resulted in new environmental noise issues, particularly in road traffic noise. The objective of this study was to assess and evaluate the impact of environmental noise on the psychosocial well-being of young healthy individuals in the two main Slovak cities of Bratislava and Kosice. To assess noise annoyance, interference with activities, and sleep disturbance, the ICBEN (The International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise) anonymous validated “Noise annoyance questionnaire” was applied; noise levels were objectified by direct measurements using a sound level analyzer with a frequency analysis module. Young individuals between the ages of 20 and 30 were interviewed in Bratislava (533 respondents, 155 males) and Kosice (355 respondents, 111 males). The majority of the respondents in both cities were exposed to medium levels of road traffic noise LAeq ≥ 60 dB. In Bratislava, 27.82 % of respondents resided in the higher noise exposure category LAeq ≥ 70 dB, while in Kosice, 39.9 % resided in the lower noise exposure category LAeq < 50 dB. Road traffic noise annoys respondents in the higher noise exposure category in Bratislava 63.51 %, and even in the lower noise exposure category in Kosice, it interferes with reading and mental work, sleep and falling asleep 46.51 %. The study has identified traffic noise as an environmental issue in large cities, emphasizing the need for vulnerable individuals to be protected, particularly at night.

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Assessment of Train Noise at Platforms in Underground Metro Stations

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Trend of Sound Absorption Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Trend of Sound Absorption Research: A Bibliometric Analysis

Supporting a decision for metro station restoration based on facility assessment: application to Cairo metro stations

Sleep Disturbance and Noise Annoyance and Environmental Noise Exposure in Residents of Two Major Slovakian Cities

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