Differences in subjective loudness and annoyance depending on the road traffic noise spectrum

Torija Martinez, AJ; Flindell, IH

Abstract

There is at present no consensus about the relative importance of low frequency content in urban
road traffic noise. The hypothesis underlying this research is that changes to different parts of
the spectrum will have different effects depending on which part of the spectrum is subjectively
dominant in any particular situation. This letter reports a simple listening experiment which
demonstrates this effect using typical urban main road traffic noise in which the low frequency
content is physically dominant without necessarily being subjectively dominant.

Citation

Torija Martinez, A., & Flindell, I. (2014). Differences in subjective loudness and annoyance depending on the road traffic noise spectrum. ˜The œJournal of the Acoustical Society of America (Online), 135(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4842456

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 14, 2014
• Deposit Date: Dec 3, 2019
• Journal: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA)
• Print ISSN: 0001-4966
• Volume: 135
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4842456
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4842456
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