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ArticleJournal of environmental health science & engineering2015

Critical assessment of day time traffic noise level at curbside open-air microenvironment of Kolkata City, India.

Anirban Kundu Chowdhury, Anupam Debsarkar, Shibnath Chakrabarty

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Article in Journal of environmental health science & engineering, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  3. Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on ambient noise levels in seven metropolitan cities of India.Applied acoustics. Acoustique applique. Angewandte Akustik · 2022
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Anirban Kundu ChowdhuryDepartment of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032 India.
Anupam DebsarkarDepartment of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032 India.
Shibnath ChakrabartyDepartment of Civil Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032 India.

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Abstract

backgroundThe objective of the research work is to assess day time traffic noise level at curbside open-air microenvironment of Kolkata city, India under heterogeneous environmental conditions.

resultsPrevailing traffic noise level in terms of A-weighted equivalent noise level (Leq) at the microenvironment was in excess of 12.6 ± 2.1 dB(A) from the day time standard of 65 dB(A) for commercial area recommended by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) of India. Noise Climate and Traffic Noise Index of the microenvironment were accounted for 13 ± 1.8 dB(A) and 88.8 ± 6.1 dB(A) respectively. A correlation analysis explored that prevailing traffic noise level of the microenvironment had weak negative (-0.21; p < 0.01) and very weak positive (0.19; p < 0.01) correlation with air temperature and relative humidity. A Varimax rotated principal component analysis explored that motorized traffic volume had moderate positive loading with background noise component (L90, L95, L99) and prevailing traffic noise level had very strong positive loading with peak noise component (L1, L5, L10). Background and peak noise component cumulatively explained 80.98 % of variance in the data set.

conclusionsTraffic noise level at curbside open-air microenvironment of Kolkata City was higher than the standard recommended by CPCB of India. It was highly annoying also. Air temperature and relative humidity had little influence and the peak noise component had the most significant influence on the prevailing traffic noise level at curbside open-air microenvironment. Therefore, traffic noise level at the microenvironment of the city can be reduced with careful honking and driving.

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Background noise componentCorrelation analysisNoise climatePeak noise componentPrincipal component analysisTraffic noise indexTraffic noise level

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PMCPMC4584129

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