Acoustical, sensory, and psychological research data and procedures for their use in predicting effects of environmental noises

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Karl D Kryter

Abstract

A demonstration field-research study reveals that aircraft noise measured at two one-story houses is approximately 9 dB less attenuated from measured outdoor levels than is street traffic noise, and, found in other studies, approximately 14 dB less than railway noise. Comparable differences are found between these noises from the application of basic acoustical formulas for quantifying attenuations that occur on site of one- and two-story houses. Reasonably consistent with those findings are results from attitude surveys showing that daily exposure levels of aircraft must be approximately 8 dB less than levels of street traffic noise, and approximately 13 dB less than levels of railway noise to be perceived as an equal cause of annoyance and related adverse effects. However, USA government guidelines recommend that equal exposure levels of noise measured outdoors from vehicles of transportation should be considered as being equally annoying. Changes in present USA noise-measurement procedures and noise-control guidelines are proposed that provide more accurate predictions of annoyance, related adverse effects, and criteria for setting "tolerable" limits of noise exposure in residential areas. Key acoustical and psycho-acoustica...Continue Reading

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Nov 11, 2009·European Journal of Applied Physiology·Patricia TassiAlain Muzet
Mar 8, 2014·Environmental Health : a Global Access Science Source·Guo-Qing DiJian Kang
Jun 11, 2009·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·Karl D Kryter
Dec 17, 2009·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America·Kerstin Dittrich, Daniel Oberfeld
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Dec 7, 2017·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Boshen JiaoPeter Muennig
Sep 15, 2007·Nature Reviews. Microbiology·David M Karl

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