Over the last decades the vehicle industry has shown interest in integrating new
technologies on vehicles' design. Such technologies are used in autonomous, connected …

The mandate of the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN) is to
promote a high level of scientific research concerning all aspects of noise-induced effects on …

Abstract The Environmental Noise Directive (2002/49/EC) requires EU Member States to
determine the exposure to environmental noise through strategic noise mapping and to …

Research combining the measurement of objective variables with surveys of people's
perception of noise on city streets is useful in terms of understanding the impact of urban …

Road traffic noise is the most annoying form of environmental noise pollution. The
enforcement of using artificially generated noise for electrically powered vehicles is currently …

In many countries such as Chile, there is scarce official information for generating accurate
noise maps. Therefore, specific simplification methods are becoming a real need for the …

Noise maps are diagnosis tools which represent the noise exposure situation using the
energy-based index L den (the day–evening–night level). Two major drawbacks may be …

As of 2023, Bangladesh stands as the seventh most populous nation globally, confronting
challenges arising from limited resources and rapid urbanization. The emergence of the …

Noise annoyance is considered as the main effect of noise, it is a complex and multifaceted
psychological concept dealing with immediate behavioral and evaluative aspects. In the last …

Whether listening in a forest or on an open plain, by the side of a river or in the ocean, at the
outskirts of suburbia or right downtown, the Earth abounds with sounds. The use of the term …