Human response to vibration from passenger and freight railway traffic in residential environments

Woodcock, JS; Sharp, C; Sica, G; Peris, E; Moorhouse, AT; Waddington, DC; Peris, E

Abstract

Exposure-response relationships for the human response to vibration and noise from railway activities in residential environments have been derived recently in the UK. These relationships are the outcome of a large scale field study funded by Defra (UK) in which response, mainly in terms of annoyance, was measured via face-to-face interviews with residents in their own homes and vibration exposure was determined via measurement and prediction techniques. These exposure-response relationships, which describe annoyance as a function of vibration exposure, were in terms of all activities from the railway. In this paper, data collected
from this study is further explored to investigate differences in annoyance elicited by different sources of railway vibration (namely passenger trains, freight trains, and track maintenance). Consideration is given to the times of day in which freight activities occur. Preliminary
exposure-response relationships are presented and compared with relationships derived for all railway activities. It is shown that there is a significant difference between annoyance responses for different sources of railway vibration (Kruskal-Wallace, p < 0.001).
[Work funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) UK and EU FP7 through the Cargovibes project]

• Presentation Conference Type: Other
• Conference Name: ICSV19
• Start Date: Jul 8, 2012
• End Date: Jul 12, 2012
• Publication Date: Jul 1, 2012
• Deposit Date: Oct 1, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 5, 2016
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference