State-Specific Vehicle Noise Emission Characteristics
Publication: Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 127, Issue 6
Abstract
During the period of September 1999 through March 2000, the University of Louisville Research Foundation conducted a series of reference energy mean emission level (REMEL) measurements of individual vehicle operations in the state of Arizona. This study was conducted to determine if the noise emission characteristics of Arizona highway vehicles are consistent with the data contained in the Federal Highway Administration's Traffic Noise Model (TNM). A comparison of the Arizona TNM REMELs with the Federal Highway Administration national TNM REMELs shows the two data sets are statistically different at a 95% confidence level for all three vehicle types addressed in this paper.
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Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 127 • Issue 6 • December 2001
Pages: 523 - 530
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Received: Sep 11, 2000
Published online: Dec 1, 2001
Published in print: Dec 2001
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