Urban Traffic Noise of Heavy Vehicles in Octave Bands

In this paper same results of heavy vehicles traffic measurements were used to simulate the noise measurands by the CNOSSOS-EU method for this purpose. The heavy vehicles traffic volume and velocity were recorded by permanent automatic monitoring station. The noise was calculated in octave bands according to the CNOSSOS-EU method. The positional and not positional measures of traffic noise were proposed for data scattering. The results was described using parameters such as the median, average peak noise, average maximum noise, average background level, first and third quartiles and relative measures of noise. Analyzes carried out for the tested section of the road showed that the traffic of heavy vehicles is not always the main source of road noise. It has been shown that maximum values of the acoustic pressure occur for the frequency of f0 = 500 Hz. The dispersion of noise and type A uncertainty of the results were evaluated.