Environmental Issues: Noise, Rail Noise, and High-Speed Rail

摘要

The six papers in the report deal with the following areas: the effect of noise barriers on the market value of adjacent residential properties; control of airport- and aircraft-related noise in the United States; a traffic assignment model to reduce noise annoyance in urban networks; a survey of railroad occupational noise sources; a prediction procedure for rail transportation groundborne noise and vibration; high-speed rail in California: the dream, the process, and the reality.