Van Renterghem, T;
Forssen, J;
Attenborough, K;
Jean, P;
Defrance, J;
Hornikx, M;
Kang, J;
(2015)
Using natural means to reduce surface transport noise during propagation outdoors.
Applied Acoustics
, 92
pp. 86-101.
10.1016/j.apacoust.2015.01.004.
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Abstract
This paper reviews ways of reducing surface transport noise by natural means. The noise abatement solutions of interest can be easily (visually) incorporated in the landscape or help with greening the (sub)urban environment. They include vegetated surfaces (applied to faces or tops of noise walls and on buildings’ façades and roofs), caged piles of stones (gabions), vegetation belts (tree belts, shrub zones and hedges), earth berms and various ways of exploiting ground-surface-related effects. The ideas presented in this overview have been tested in the laboratory and/or numerically evaluated in order to assess or enhance the noise abatement they could provide. Some in-situ experiments are discussed as well. When well designed, such natural devices have the potential to abate surface transport noise, possibly by complementing and sometimes improving common (non-natural) noise reducing devices or measures. Their applicability strongly depends on the available space reserved for the noise abatement and the receiver position.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Using natural means to reduce surface transport noise during propagation outdoors |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.apacoust.2015.01.004 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2015.01.004 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Outdoor sound propagation, Surface transport noise, Noise barriers, Vegetation belts, Ground effect, Building envelope greening |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10058520 |
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