Noise MappingPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2020-0001
A. Sotiropoulou, Ioannis Karagiannis, E. Vougioukas, A. Ballis, Aspasia Bouki
{"title":"Measurements and prediction of road traffic noise along high-rise building façades in Athens","authors":"A. Sotiropoulou, Ioannis Karagiannis, E. Vougioukas, A. Ballis, Aspasia Bouki","doi":"10.1515/noise-2020-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2020-0001","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Constant exposure to traffic noise pollution can have significant impact on human health and well being. Occupants of high-rise buildings along noisy traffic arteries are severely affected. In an attempt to contribute to noise protection design of prospective high-rise buildings, traffic noise measurements and prediction using the CRTN (calculation of road traffic noise) model, were made along the façade of a high-rise building in central Athens. The aim was to test the accuracy of this model in predicting the vertical distribution (mapping) of traffic noise along such building façades, under the local urban characteristics of the Mediterranean capital. The predicted and measured noise levels were found to be highly coherent with each other, and their vertical distribution pattern, by and large, confirmed findings from earlier studies. Nevertheless, the predicted values had a tendency of underestimation, with a mean difference −2.2 dB(A) with reference to measured values. It is considered that this underestimation is associated mainly with a newly proposed feature of urban morphology, namely (local) geo-morphology. By and large, it can be inferred that the CRTN model is a useful tool, suitable for the prediction of traffic noise along high-rise building façades during their planning and design stage. The results represent a further step towards more general application of this model, as well as a contribution to the use of this model considering a wider number of urban features.","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2020-0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43476478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noise MappingPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2020-0002
T. Akinci, S. Seker, Erkan Dursun, O. Kiliç
{"title":"Noise identification based on spectral analysis and noisy transfer function approach for fuel cells","authors":"T. Akinci, S. Seker, Erkan Dursun, O. Kiliç","doi":"10.1515/noise-2020-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2020-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this study, some measurements like the current, voltage and hydrogen flow based on the fuel cell are investigated in spectral-domain as well as their time-domain representations and then, their spectral properties are extracted. Besides this, taking the simplified transfer function approach into account, which is defined between the hydrogen flow and current of the cell as an input-output pair, more detailed results are obtained. Therefore, the spectral parts of the fuel cell are put into categories under the impacts coming from the process, measurement circuits and digitizers. The process noise to be defined at very small frequencies (<15 Hz) can be explained as the effects of the various physical and chemical interactions emerging in the fuel cell. Moreover, this study analysed the spectral characteristics of fuel cells for current, voltage and hydrogen flow in detail.","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2020-0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44667124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noise MappingPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2020-0005
A. Gagliano, F. Nocera, A. Cicero, L. Marletta, G. Evola
{"title":"Mitigation of environmental noise in urban streets through lightweight transparent screens","authors":"A. Gagliano, F. Nocera, A. Cicero, L. Marletta, G. Evola","doi":"10.1515/noise-2020-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2020-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Noise pollution is one of the main environmental stressors in urban areas. In particular, strong noise pollution can be experienced at nighttime in downtown areas with intense anthropic activities: here, dwellers may suffer from disturbance to their rest, which induces stress and – in turn – adverse effects on health. Usually, local authorities implement actions to tackle noise pollution, e.g. limiting the time allowed for outdoor events. However, these measures are often inadequate because the noise annoyance comes directly by the shouting of people spending time outdoors till late night. In this framework, this study proposes a procedure to optimize the shape of customized lightweight transparent noise screens that can be applied to façades in order to reduce noise disturbance in urban canyons. The case study of the “movida” area in the downtown of Marina di Ragusa (Southern Italy) is discussed to test the applicability of the proposed procedure. The results of this analysis allow defining the shape and the size of the noise screens that minimize the noise annoyance perceived by residents. The proposed mitigation approach can be applied in cities affected by significant noise pollution.","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2020-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44851811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noise MappingPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2020-0007
F. Asdrubali
{"title":"Noise Mapping: a first balance and future perspectives","authors":"F. Asdrubali","doi":"10.1515/noise-2020-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2020-0007","url":null,"abstract":"It was almost six years ago – in June 2014 – when I wrote the Editorial “New frontiers in Environmental Noise”, officially the first paper appeared in Noise Mapping. Since then, the Journal has experienced a constant growth and has gained a reputation in the international context as the main publishing option for authors writing on noise mapping and related topics. The Journal has become a hub integrating the relevant research communities in the fields of environmental noise and soundscape studies. Many high quality research papers have been published in all the different fields of environmental acoustics, and in particular:","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2020-0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48912415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noise MappingPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2020-0008
K. Vogiatzis, D. Dimitriou, Georgia Gerolymatou, Aristeidis Konstantinidis
{"title":"Strategic noise mapping in Athens International Airport: A tool for balanced approach & health effects evaluation","authors":"K. Vogiatzis, D. Dimitriou, Georgia Gerolymatou, Aristeidis Konstantinidis","doi":"10.1515/noise-2020-0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2020-0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Athens International Airport (A.I.A) is the first major transportation infrastructure in Greece with the participation of the private sector, a pioneer international Public-Private Partnership. Environmental protection is a priority, and AIA, is committed to protect the environment and preventing or lessening negative impacts, through a comprehensive Environmental Policy and Procedures. Within this framework, AIA has already carried out the study for Strategic Noise Map (SNM) and the Noise Action Plan (NAP) for the Aircraft Noise. According to the European Directive 49/2002 the study should be repeated every 5 years. This research article focuses on the comparative study for the latest SNMs 2017 & 2019 (ECAC Doc.29) and for 2019 (executed by the new methodology CNOSSOS-GR), for the respective traffic data 2016 & 2018, and presents the results of the acoustic model in order to create the Strategic Noise Maps for Lden & Lnight indicators. With a view to implementing the legislation, an analysis of aircraft mix for every year (except helicopters, military and other specific flights) was carried out in accordance with the categorisation provided for in the relevant recommendation of the Committee of 6 August 2003 and the European Commission adopted Directive 2015/996. The potential health effects were further analyzed using the World Health Organization (WHO’s) Disability Adjusted Life Year’s (DALY’s) metrics for aircraft noise in relation to the exposure of the population based on the results of alternative comparative Strategic Noise Maps. The aim of the study is to show how the combination of both the implementation of the European Directive 2002/49 and 2015/996 and the DALY approach is an analysis tool for the evaluation of the acoustic environment. As we can observe in the results, the overall findings are significantly lower in the case of SNM 2019 (executed by the new methodology CNOSSOS-GR) than in the others.","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2020-0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49479454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noise MappingPub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2020-0010
F. Aletta, S. Brinchi, S. Carrese, A. Gemma, C. Guattari, L. Mannini, S. M. Patella
{"title":"Analysing urban traffic volumes and mapping noise emissions in Rome (Italy) in the context of containment measures for the COVID-19 disease","authors":"F. Aletta, S. Brinchi, S. Carrese, A. Gemma, C. Guattari, L. Mannini, S. M. Patella","doi":"10.1515/noise-2020-0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2020-0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study presents the result of a traffic simulation analysis based on Floating Car Data and a noise emission assessment to show the impact of mobility restriction for COVID-19 containment on urban vehicular traffic and road noise pollution on the road network of Rome, Italy. The adoption of strong and severe measures to contain the spreading of Coronavirus during March-April 2020 generated a significant reduction in private vehicle trips in the city of Rome (-64.6% during the lockdown). Traffic volumes, obtained through a simulation approach, were used as input parameters for a noise emission assessment conducted using the CNOSSOS-EU method, and an overall noise emissions reduction on the entire road network was found, even if its extent varied between road types.","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2020-0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49407916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noise MappingPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2019-0004
N. Manojkumar, K. Basha, B. Srimuruganandam
{"title":"Assessment, Prediction and Mapping of Noise Levels in Vellore City, India","authors":"N. Manojkumar, K. Basha, B. Srimuruganandam","doi":"10.1515/noise-2019-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2019-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Present study focuses on measurement, prediction and mapping of noise levels in important places of Vellore city located in Tamil Nadu state, India. Weekday and weekend noise levels at six locations (S1 to S6) are recorded during morning, afternoon and evening times. Sampling locations includes educational (S1), commercial (S2 and S4), tourist and recreational (S3), and mixed (S5 and S6) zones. Assessment in Vellore city showed maximum Leq level in S4 and S5 and lowest is recorded in S3 throughout the study. Highest Leq levels are recorded in evening (57.52–78.41 dB(A)) and afternoon (58.76–76.39 dB(A)) time during weekday and weekend, respectively. Along with Leq, noise descriptors are also included and discussed in this study. Weekend has higher mean value of TNI thanWeekday. CoRTN model is employed to predict the L10 values. Results showed good performance of model with marginal difference between measured and predicted L10 levels. Further noise maps are created separately for weekday and weekend using ArcGIS software. Noise maps showed alarming noise levels near sampling sites and it is suggested to take immediate preventive measures using barriers or by providing alternative traffic routes.","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2019-0004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48147613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noise MappingPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2019-0007
H. Lee, K. Lim, S. Garg
{"title":"Sonic environment of Singapore Botanic Gardens and benchmarking with various urban gardens of the world","authors":"H. Lee, K. Lim, S. Garg","doi":"10.1515/noise-2019-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2019-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The urban parks and gardens are usually surrounded by busy streets, commercial buildings and areas of high noise levels due to human activities and heavy traffic. These parks and gardens therefore have a unique function of providing relatively quiet areas to get away from the hustle and bustle of city lives. In this study, the sonic environment of the Singapore Botanic Gardens, which was the first UNESCO Heritage site in Singapore, was measured on various occasions and benchmarked with various urban gardens and parks around the world, namely the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, Real Jardín Botánico in Madrid. St James’s Park in London, Old Botanical Gardens Hamburg, and Carlton Gardens in Melbourne. The Leq noise level was found to be compatible with the respective Leq noise level of the other urban parks and gardens. The sonic environment of the Singapore Botanic gardens was found to be dominated by cicada sound, human activities and water features. The sound level of various water features such as mini waterfalls and water fountains were also measured and analysed.","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2019-0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44168195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noise MappingPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2019-0005
Deepank Verma, Arnab Jana, K. Ramamritham
{"title":"Classification and mapping of sound sources in local urban streets through AudioSet data and Bayesian optimized Neural Networks","authors":"Deepank Verma, Arnab Jana, K. Ramamritham","doi":"10.1515/noise-2019-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2019-0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Deep learning (DL) methods have provided several breakthroughs in conventional data analysis techniques, especially with image and audio datasets. Rapid assessment and large-scale quantification of environmental attributes have been possible through such models. This study focuses on the creation of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) based models to classify sound sources from manually collected sound clips in local streets. A subset of an openly available AudioSet data is used to train and evaluate the model against the common sound classes present in the urban streets. The collection of audio data is done at random locations in the selected study area of 0.2 sq. km. The audio clips are further classified according to the extent of anthropogenic (mainly traffic), natural and human-based sounds present in particular locations. Rather than the manual tuning of model hyperparameters, the study utilizes Bayesian Optimization to obtain hyperparameter values of Neural Network models. The optimized models produce an overall accuracy of 89 percent and 60 percent on the evaluation set for three and fifteen-class model respectively. The model detections are mapped in the study area with the help of the Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW) spatial interpolation method.","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2019-0005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48478836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noise MappingPub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1515/noise-2019-0006
S. M. Patella, F. Aletta, L. Mannini
{"title":"Assessing the impact of Autonomous Vehicles on urban noise pollution","authors":"S. M. Patella, F. Aletta, L. Mannini","doi":"10.1515/noise-2019-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/noise-2019-0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper presents the results of a noise emission study of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and their impact on the road network. By comparing the current situation with a future hypothetical scenario (100% AVs penetration), this study highlights the positive effect, in terms of noise pollution, of the adoption of AVs on a real road network (city of Rome). For this scope, a traffic simulation-based approach was used to investigate the effects of AVs on the network congestion. Results show that the full AVs penetration scenario leads to an improvement in the network performances in terms of travel time and average network speed. Moreover, the amount of Vehicle Kilometre Travelled (VKT) shows an 8% increase on longer extra-urban routes, due to the higher capacity impact of AVs on highways, with a consequent load reduction for intra-urban shortcutting routes. These results are also reflected in terms of noise emission. In fact, the central area would benefit from lower noise emission, whereas an increase in traffic volume and speed lead to worsened conditions for some specific highway links of the network. Overall, it was shown that a 100% AVs fleet would have a beneficial effect for the noise pollution, leading to a general reduction of noise emissions, which is more pronounced for intra-urban roads.","PeriodicalId":44086,"journal":{"name":"Noise Mapping","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2019-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1515/noise-2019-0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43579552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}