Road Traffic Noise Annoyance in Relation to Average Noise Level, Number of Events and Maximum Noise Level

Sato, Tetsumi; Yano, Takashi; Björkman, M.; Rylander, Ragnar

doi:10.1006/jsvi.1999.2153

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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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Section: Brief History Of Noise Problem Caused By Vehicle Hornsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Takada

Fukuda

Iwamiya

2013

Acoust. Sci. & Tech.

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“…Further, it has been suggested that noise annoyance may also be determined, at least in part, by noise events from road traffic streams [11][12][13]. When noise events are noticed, they may distract attention and interfere with activities [14][15][16].…”

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A road traffic noise pattern simulation model that includes distributions of vehicle sound power levels

Coensel¹,

Brown²,

Tomerini³

2016

Applied Acoustics

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Annoyance, sleep disturbance and other health effects of road traffic noise exposure may be related to both level and number of noise events caused by traffic, not just to energy equivalent measures of exposure. Dynamic traffic noise prediction models that include instantaneous vehicle noise emissions can be used to estimate either of these measures. However, current state-of-the-art vehicle noise emission models typically consider a single emission law for each vehicle category, whereas measurements show that the variation in noise emission between vehicles within the same category can be considerable. It is essential that the influence of vehicles that are producing significantly more (or less) noise than the average vehicle are taken into account in modelling in order to correctly predict the levels and frequency of occurrence of road traffic noise events, and in particular to calculate indicators that characterize these noise events. Here, an approach for predicting instantaneous sound levels caused by road traffic is presented, which takes into account measured distributions of sound power levels produced by individual vehicles. For the setting of a receiver adjacent to a dual-lane road carrying free flow traffic, the effect of this approach on estimated percentile levels and sound event indicators is investigated. • The software is freely available as a Python plugin to the Aimsun microscopic traffic simulator.• Simulations show that this refined approach affects estimated percentile sound levels by up to 4 dB.• The influence of the approach on indicators for the number of noise events is illustrated.

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“…5,6 In order to mitigate noise problems, a majority of past and even current efforts have been focused on lowering sound pressure levels as they have often been thought to be linked with noise annoyance. [7][8][9][10] Higher sound levels generally lead to higher annoyance, 11 even though different types of sounds moderate noise annoyance to different degrees. 12,13 The number of noise events are also found to influence noise annoyance perception.…”

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On the study of the effects of sea views, greenery views and personal characteristics on noise annoyance perception at homes

Chau

Tse

et al. 2012

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Noise annoyance has caused significant adverse impacts on human beings and numerous efforts have been spent on mitigating annoyance problems. Natural greenery has been shown to be able to moderate annoyance problems at home but this conclusion was drawn without properly controlling the potential confounding factors. Furthermore, few have explored the moderation effect of a sea view. Accordingly, this study formulated a multivariate model to examine the impacts of natural views as well as personal characteristics on annoyance perception. A housing estate was selected in Hong Kong as the survey site for which some of the residents were exposed to greenery views, sea views, or both from their homes. Eight hundred and sixty-one responses were collected via questionnaire surveys and analyzed using an ordered logit model. The results suggest that both a greenery view and a sea view can moderate annoyance responses. Several individual's personal characteristics are found to affect individuals' annoyance perception. The duration of time spent daily at home is shown to have an influence on the moderation impact exerted by a greenery view, while the age of an individual is shown to have an influence on noise moderation effect exerted by a sea view.

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Road Traffic Noise Annoyance in Relation to Average Noise Level, Number of Events and Maximum Noise Level

Cited by 66 publications

References 8 publications

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 road traffic noise pattern simulation model that includes distributions of vehicle sound power levels

On the study of the effects of sea views, greenery views and personal characteristics on noise annoyance perception at homes

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