Prediction of Accuracy of Temporal Sampling Applied to Non-Urban Road Traffic Noise

Because road traffic noise is a random phenomenon, the relevant legislation and standards often require the determination of the acoustic descriptors either on a medium or long term.

For instance, the day-evening-night level Lden introduced by the European Directive 2002/49/EC (2002), even if referred to 24h, should be representative of the annual period, and, in Italy, the current legislation requires that the road traffic noise monitoring lasts at least one week. The current instrumentation enables measurements over a long time, as it can store and transmit a large amount of data. However, such duration is not feasible for monitoring attended by an operator and, therefore, requires the time-consuming post processing validation of the acquired data to eliminate all of the sound events that are not associated with road traffic noise. Read more>>>>>>>>>>>