A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being

Previous studies have stated that an urban residential area’s living quality is threatened by noise annoyance, of which traffic noise is considered the main contributor. This paper aims to discuss if the speed-reducing benefits of existing road humps make them viable as a noise-reducing measure, pa...

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Main Authors:	Bachok, Khairun Sarah Radhiah, Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez, Mohamed, Mohd Zin, Ibrahim, Mansor
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	NA9053.R4 City planning
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/51924/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51924/2/wctrsKS.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/51924/24/51924-cover-edited.pdf

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spelling	iium-519242017-07-05T08:13:06Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/51924/ A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being Bachok, Khairun Sarah Radhiah Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez Mohamed, Mohd Zin Ibrahim, Mansor NA9053.R4 City planning Previous studies have stated that an urban residential area’s living quality is threatened by noise annoyance, of which traffic noise is considered the main contributor. This paper aims to discuss if the speed-reducing benefits of existing road humps make them viable as a noise-reducing measure, particularly when the humps do not comply with existing guidelines. The methods used were a literature review and paired-sample T-tests to test the significance of changes in traffic noise at selected road humps. The literature and data showed that noise levels were still high at roads with road humps, due to the frequency of vehicle accelerations and decelerations near the road humps. The noise levels are also above the permissible noise level for Malaysian residential areas. This suggests that road humps are less viable especially when drivers change their speed of vehicles appreciably when approaching the road humps. 2016 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51924/2/wctrsKS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/51924/24/51924-cover-edited.pdf Bachok, Khairun Sarah Radhiah and Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez and Mohamed, Mohd Zin and Ibrahim, Mansor (2016) A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being. In: 14th World Conference on Transport Research 2016, 10th-15th July 2016, Shanghai, China. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	NA9053.R4 City planning Bachok, Khairun Sarah Radhiah Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez Mohamed, Mohd Zin Ibrahim, Mansor A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being
description	Previous studies have stated that an urban residential area’s living quality is threatened by noise annoyance, of which traffic noise is considered the main contributor. This paper aims to discuss if the speed-reducing benefits of existing road humps make them viable as a noise-reducing measure, particularly when the humps do not comply with existing guidelines. The methods used were a literature review and paired-sample T-tests to test the significance of changes in traffic noise at selected road humps. The literature and data showed that noise levels were still high at roads with road humps, due to the frequency of vehicle accelerations and decelerations near the road humps. The noise levels are also above the permissible noise level for Malaysian residential areas. This suggests that road humps are less viable especially when drivers change their speed of vehicles appreciably when approaching the road humps.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Bachok, Khairun Sarah Radhiah Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez Mohamed, Mohd Zin Ibrahim, Mansor
author_facet	Bachok, Khairun Sarah Radhiah Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez Mohamed, Mohd Zin Ibrahim, Mansor
author_sort	Bachok, Khairun Sarah Radhiah
title	A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being
title_short	A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being
title_full	A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being
title_fullStr	A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being
title_full_unstemmed	A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being
title_sort	theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being
publishDate	2016
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/51924/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51924/2/wctrsKS.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/51924/24/51924-cover-edited.pdf
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A theoretical overview of road hump effects on traffic noise in improving residential well-being

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