Title: ANNOYANCE DUE TO RAILWAY NOISE AND ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE: A FURTHER COMPARISON. AUTHOR'S REPLY
Abstract: A recent paper published in the Journal of Sound and Vibration (IRRD 265556), by J M Fields and J G Walker, compared the response to railway noise with the response to road traffic and aircraft noise. The study was carried out to determine whether, at a given noise level, response to various noises are similar or source-specific. The author of the letter, B F Berry, suggests that by using a social survey not included in the paper, large differences between the results of comparable road traffic noise surveys are indicated and that railway noise can sometimes cause greater annoyance than road traffic noise. A reply to the letter by one of the authors of the original paper, suggests that two road surveys, conducted in different parts of the country not using probability selection techniques, yielded different estimates of the noise level/human response relationship. Although one set of seven sites in one of the three road traffic surveys shows annoyance not greater than the average annoyance in the railway survey, the surveys used by the authors in the original paper are considered to provide a better basis for comparison and in general, railway noise in England is less annoying than traffic noise at the same level.
Publication Year: 1983
Publication Date: 1983-05-22
Language: en
Type: article
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