Breaking barriers: alternative approaches to avoiding and reducing highway traffic noise impacts /

The most common approach that state departments of transportation (DOTs) use to address highway traffic noise impacts is noise barriers--usually noise walls. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 984: Breaking Barriers: Alternative Approaches to Avoiding...

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Main Authors:	Rochat, Judith L. (Author), Barrett, Doug (Author), McKenna, Shannon (Author), Yoerg, Keith (Author), Cubick, Karel L. (Author), Riffle, Sean (Author), Samples, Lisa M. (Author), Rasmussen, Robert (Author), Sohaney, Richard (Author)
Corporate Authors:	American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (sponsoring body.), United States. Federal Highway Administration (sponsoring body.)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Transportation Research Board, 2022.
Series:	Report (National Cooperative Highway Research Program) ; 984.
Subjects:	Noise barriers > Design and construction. Transportation agencies > Management. Traffic noise > Environmental aspects. Ministères des transports > Gestion. Circulation > Bruit > Aspect de l'environnement.
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Summary:	The most common approach that state departments of transportation (DOTs) use to address highway traffic noise impacts is noise barriers--usually noise walls. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's NCHRP Research Report 984: Breaking Barriers: Alternative Approaches to Avoiding and Reducing Highway Traffic Noise Impacts presents the results of a review of innovative strategies to avoid and/or reduce highway noise impacts. A practitioner's handbook to identify which of these innovative strategies may be appropriate for a highway project is also included. Supplemental to the report are Appendices A through E, covering terminology, a summary of 14 noise-reducing strategies, and further investigations of low berms, solid safety barriers, and acoustically soft ground; strategy flowcharts; and a final presentation.
Item Description:	At head of title: National Cooperative Highway Research Program.
Physical Description:	158 pages : illustrations (some color), charts ; 28 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and appendices.
ISBN:	9780309094269 0309094267
ISSN:	2572-3766 ;