Automated classification of urban locations for environmental noise impact assessment on the basis of road-traffic content

摘要

Urban and road planners must take right decisions related to urban traffic management and controlling noise pollution. Their assessments and resolutions have important consequences on the annoyance of population exposed to road-traffic-noise and controlling other environmental pollutants (e.g. NOx or ultrafine particles emitted by heavy vehicles). One of the key decisions is the selection of which noise control actions should be taken in sensitive areas (residential or hospital areas, school areas etc), that could include costly measures such as reducing the overall traffic, banning or reducing traffic of heavy vehicles, inspection of motorbikes sound emission, etc. For an efficient decision-making in noise control actions, it is critical to classify a given location in a sensitive area according to the different prevailing traffic conditions.