WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems
Print ISSN: 1109-2734, E-ISSN: 2224-266X
Volume 15, 2016
A Methodology for Evaluating Urban Traffic Plan Scenarios from the Point of View of Traffic Noise
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Abstract: In recent decades, given the growing importance of sustainable mobility in all its various aspects, reducing traffic noise has become one of the main objectives of transportation planning in urban areas. Urban traffic plans (UTPs) are tactical planning tools for managing urban areas and traffic noise abatement is one of their objectives, explicitly provided for under Italian law. To date, the various models and methods for estimating traffic noise have concerned its estimation in a point (or on a road segment). In this paper we propose a method that is able to evaluate the effects of UTPs on noise abatement on the whole network, hence that can be used for comparing different planning scenarios. The proposed method is tested on a real study case, comparing the initial and final scenarios of a UTP, adopting three different traffic noise models. Numerical results show that the proposed method is able to evaluate the scenarios in terms of traffic noise reduction.
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Keywords: Traffic noise, urban traffic plan, noise models, transportation plan, sustainable mobility
Pages: 187-197
WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2734 / 2224-266X, Volume 15, 2016, Art. #22