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Landscaping for road traffic noise abatement: Model validation
- Source :
- ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2018.
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Abstract
- Deliberately changing terrain undulation and ground characteristics (“acoustical landscaping”) is an potential noise abatement solution near roads. However, there is hardly any research regarding the validity of sound propagation models to predict its effectiveness. Long-term continuous sound pressure level measurements near a complex road traffic and sound propagation case were performed. Three types of modeling approaches were validated, covering the full spectrum of available techniques. A two-dimensional full-wave technique (the finite-difference time-domain method, FDTD), but also an advanced engineering model (the Harmonoise point-to-point model), provide accurate transmission loss predictions, both in 1/3 octave bands and for total A-weighted sound pressure levels. Two common and widely used semi-empirical engineering methods (ISO9613-2 and CNOSSOS) yield rather inaccurate results, notwithstanding the short propagation distance. The sensitivity to input data was assessed by modeling various scenarios with the FDTD method. Detailed ground effect modeling was shown to be of main importance.
- Subjects :
- Technology and Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Computer science
Acoustics
Transmission loss
Terrain
BARRIER PERFORMANCE
010501 environmental sciences
01 natural sciences
models
Terrain effect
0103 physical sciences
IMPEDANCE MODELS
Noise control
Engineering models
Road traffic noise
Sound pressure
010301 acoustics
Road traffic
Full-wave
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Ground effect (cars)
HARMONOISE PROJECT
Ecological Modeling
Finite-difference time-domain method
OUTDOOR SOUND-PROPAGATION
REDUCTION
Noise mapping
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Landscaping
Outdoor sound propagation
Software
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13648152 and 18736726
- Volume :
- 109
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Modelling & Software
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9ef1d7c599e3f0be8a62a84189a59d19