Environmentally Progressive Road Traffic Noise Reducing Devices and Materials

Abstract:

This paper analyses issues of progressive road traffic noise reducing devices design and evaluating the quality of asphalt road surfaces from the perspective of the Permanent Sustainable Development, which is one of the horizontal priorities of the National Strategic Reference Framework for the period from 2007 to 2013. The horizontal priority (HP) Permanent Sustainable Development (PSD) of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) has been complementary affecting the objectives of the NSRF. The purpose of the HP is to ensure targeted achievement on several priorities of the NSRF, which cannot be provided by a single Operational Program (OP), but requires a coordinated approach combining several specific priorities / priority axes / actions, or more precisely the projects of particular OPs. Within the specific objective of enhancing the quality of the environment has been directly defined sub-goal - to reduce noise pollution of environment. The scientific paper is concerned with measurements of the noise production and sound propagation on four different roads, where the source of the noise was the same vehicle driving at five different speeds.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 832)
• Pages: 144-151
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.832.144
• Online since: April 2016
• Authors: Martin Decky, Matúš Kováč, Eva Remišová
• Keywords: Equivalent Noise Level, Maximum Noise Level, Noise Barriers, Noise Emissions, Pavement Texture, Statistical Pass-By Method

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