In this study a framework for developing an object-oriented tool –DRONE (areawide Dynamic ROad traffic NoisE simulator) to generate areawide noise contour maps for a road network is demonstrated. This provides faster access to information for abatement of noise policies. The approach for integrating the dynamic output from traffic simulator to noise model, which predicts traffic noise based on ...

The potential of forests or narrow belts of trees alongside surface transport corridors for reducing noise is often dismissed. Partly this is a consequence of conflicting experimental evidence. But also it is the result of incomplete understanding of the various attenuation mechanisms involved and, therefore, of how they could be exploited and used together in tree planting schemes. First exper...

Adopting the noise abatement procedures(NAPs) is the common approach for abating the noise around airport for the international civil aviation. But there is only one or two procedures used in China. This paper first gives a preliminary model of optimizing the departure trajectory, which is one of the most important in the NAPs. Then it proposes two approaches with two algorithms respectively, t...

Exposure to noise constitutes a health risk. There is sufficient scientific evidence that noise exposure can induce hearing impairment, hypertension and ischemic heart disease, annoyance, sleep disturbance, and decreased school performance. For other effects such as changes in the immune system and birth defects, the evidence is limited. Most public health impacts of noise were already identifi...

For future configurations, we study the relation between the abatement of the noise sources and the Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) for coalescing binaries. Our aim is not the proposition of a new design, but an indication of where in the bandwidth or for which noise source, a noise reduction would be most efficient. We take VIRGO as the reference for our considerations, solely applicable to the in...

According to European Directive 2002/49/CE, EU state members had to compile a strategic noise map no later than 30 June 2007 and a corresponding action plan no later than 18 July 2008 for all agglomerations with more than 250,000 inhabitants and for all major airports, roads and railways. A study on environmental noise was thus conducted for the city of Palma de Mallorca (Spain) using a commerc...