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Attitudinal response towards road traffic noise in the industrial town of Asansol, India

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The major objective of the investigation was to evaluate the road traffic noise and its likely impacts on the local community of Asansol city (West Bengal, India) by monitoring and modeling. The attitudinal response of local population due to existing vehicular noise is presented in the paper. Noise and Attitudinal Survey was conducted at 25 locations. A total of 869 individuals were surveyed. The relationship between traffic noise levels and annoyance was studied using correlation, linear and multiple linear regressions analysis. The average L dn value was 73.28 ± 8.51 dB(A) (55.1–87.3); The Traffic Noise Index (TNI) was 80.62 ± 15.88 dB(A) (49.4–115.8). The mean value of percent of population Highly Annoyed (%HA) due to road traffic noise was 26.50 ± 3.37 (19.44–33.2), whereas the mean dissatisfaction score (MDS) was 2.96 ± 0.90 (1.04–4.45). Annoyance modeling was also performed based on field data. It can be said that Noise values gives desirable annoyance predicting values in comparison to vehicular data.

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  1. Department of Environment and Water Management, B.B. College, Ushagram, Asansol, Burdwan, 713303, West Bengal, India

    D. Banerjee

  2. P.G. Department of Physics, B.B. College, Asansol, West Bengal, India

    S. K. Chakraborty

  3. Deapartment of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

    S. Bhattacharyya

  4. Department of Geology, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

    A. Gangopadhyay

  5. c/o Bhakti Banerjee, 79-Rabindranagar, Asansol, Burdwan District, 713304, West Bengal, India

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Banerjee, D., Chakraborty, S.K., Bhattacharyya, S. et al. Attitudinal response towards road traffic noise in the industrial town of Asansol, India. Environ Monit Assess 151, 37–44 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-008-0247-0

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