STUDIES ON ASSESSMENT OF TRAFFIC NOISE LEVEL IN AURANGABAD CITY, INDIA

摘要

This study deals with the assessment of traffic noise levels in Aurangabad city. With respect to the total number of vehicles passing the road in unit time, which was surveyed by direct count method at six different sites in Aurangabad city, viz., Nagar Naka, Kranti Chowk, CIDCO bus stand. Railway station area, Dhoot Hospital and Baba petrol pump were selected to study the vehicular noise level. Noise measurements were carried out at these six locations on both working days and holidays during the peak traffic hours, i.e. 8:00 a.m. - 11:a.m., 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m., in the morning, afternoon and evening sessions, respectively, after 5 minutes time interval. The results obtained from this investigation showed that the Nagar Naka, Kranti chowk and CIDCO bus stand area have dense traffic zones when compared with the railway station area, Dhoot Hospital and Baba petrol pump. The minimum and the maximum noise levels are 74 and 86 dB, respectively, on working day, and 70 and 81 dB, respectively, on holiday. The measured noise level values exceed the prescribed noise level.