Potential problems with environmental sound barriers when used in mitigating surface transportation noise

Arenas, Jorge P.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.06.049

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“…Noise from traffic was often a problem in suburban and especially urban sites -areas in which physical barriers to buffer or attenuate noise often failed to exist. Noise is known to have potentially profound effects on the quality of life of urban inhabitants (Arenas, 2008;Berglund & Lindvall, 1995;Passchier-Vermeer & Passchier, 2000), affecting quality of sleep and concentration levels (Moudon, 2009) and increasing general stress levels of individuals (Song, Gee, Fan, & Takeuchi, 2007). It would, therefore, be beneficial, in terms of human health and wellbeing, to encourage noise attenuation devices/measures into suburban and urban areas.…”

Section: Changing Values Of Noise Buffering Climate Change Adaptatiomentioning

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Changes in the value of ecosystem services along a rural–urban gradient: A case study of Greater Manchester, UK

Radford

James

2013

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Section: Changing Values Of Noise Buffering Climate Change Adaptatiomentioning

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Changes in the value of ecosystem services along a rural–urban gradient: A case study of Greater Manchester, UK

Radford

James

2013

Landscape and Urban Planning

153

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“…Noise pollution (Arenas 2008;Baldauf et al 2008;Shukla et al 2009) Air pollution (Chan et al 20104 Water pollution (Steen 2005 A number of general categories that should be considered when tabulating an estimate for initial construction, rehabilitation, and annual maintenance costs. All the cost items are viable options for construction and rehabilitation activities and should, accordingly, be considered as agency costs in the analysis of life-cycle costs for a highway pavement project.…”

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Importance of Sustainability-Related Cost Components in Highway Infrastructure: Perspective of Stakeholders in Australia

Goh

Yang

2014

J. Infrastruct. Syst.

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Highway infrastructure development typically requires major capital input. Unless planned properly, such requirements can cause P serious financial constraints for investors. The push for sustainability adds a new dimension to the complexity of evaluating highway projects. 2 V1 + Finding environmentally and socially responsible solutions for highway construction will improve its potential for acceptance by the society a related costs are an integral part of the decision making. However, the importance rating of these costs is relative to each stakeholder's core k business objectives. This will influence the way these cost components are dealt with during the evaluation of highway investment alternatives uj and financial implications. This research encourages positive thinking among the highway infrastructure practitioners about sustainability. It Y calls for the construction industry to maximize sustainability deliverables while ensuring financial viability over the life cycle of highway x M infrastructure projects.

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“…Current research on noise barriers primarily focuses on noise calculation [8,9], the effects of barrier shapes [10,11], and the design of barriers [12][13][14][15]. As one of the important aspects, prediction of the insertion loss by the noise barrier has been attracting the attention of scholars, and both mathematical and experimental approaches have been developed.…”

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Calculation of Noise Barrier Insertion Loss Based on Varied Vehicle Frequencies

Wang

Luo²,

Cai

2018

Applied Sciences

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A single frequency of 500 Hz is used as the equivalent frequency for traffic noise to calculate the approximate diffraction in current road barrier designs. However, the noise frequency changes according to the different types of vehicles moving at various speeds. The primary objective of this study is the development of a method of calculating the insertion loss based on frequencies. First, the noise emissions of a large number of vehicles classified by speed and type were measured to obtain data the noise spectrum. The corresponding relation between vehicle type, speed, and noise frequency was obtained. Next, the impact of different frequencies on the insertion loss was analyzed and was verified to be reasonable in experiments with different propagation distances compared to the analysis of a pure 500 Hz sound. In addition, calculations were applied in a case with different traffic flows, and the effect of a road noise barrier with different types of constituents and flow speeds were analyzed. The results show that sound pressure levels behind a barrier of a heavy vehicle flow or with a high speed are notably elevated.

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Potential problems with environmental sound barriers when used in mitigating surface transportation noise

Cited by 49 publications

References 28 publications

Changes in the value of ecosystem services along a rural–urban gradient: A case study of Greater Manchester, UK

Changes in the value of ecosystem services along a rural–urban gradient: A case study of Greater Manchester, UK

Importance of Sustainability-Related Cost Components in Highway Infrastructure: Perspective of Stakeholders in Australia

Calculation of Noise Barrier Insertion Loss Based on Varied Vehicle Frequencies

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