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Noise annoyance and vibration perception assessment on passengers during train operation in Guangzhou Metro

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With the development of urban rail transit, taking the metro train has become one of the main modes of transportation, and passengers have an increasing demand for the comfort of taking the metro trains. This paper mainly discusses the impact of noise and vibration caused by metro train on passengers. All 13 metro lines in Guangzhou, China, were selected to conduct the questionnaire survey on the subjective perception of 601 respondents. At the same time, noise and vibration measurements were carried out in the train. The results show that the distribution of noise and vibrations along the metro lines is not uniform, and 50.6% of the interviewees are disturbed by noise. Wheel-rail squeal was found to be the most annoying and disturbing noise source. Three dose-response relationships for noise, vertical vibration, and horizontal vibration are proposed, respectively. The proposed dose-response relationship can be applied to the evaluation of noise annoyance or vibration perception in an environment similar to metro lines. Once the noise or vibration level of a metro line is obtained, the noise disturbance or vibration perception can be estimated. As for the dose-response relationship of vibration perception, people’s sensitivity to vibration is much lower than that to noise. Horizontal vibrations are more acceptable to passengers, while vertical vibrations are more disturbing to passengers. The results are helpful to predict the noise annoyance and vibration perception of train passengers between metro stations, and to achieve the purpose of designing effective noise and vibration reduction measures.

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The datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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The National Natural Science Foundation of China (51908139) and the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (2021A1515012605) provided support for measurement data collection and analysis.

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    Xuming Li, Zihao Hu & Chao Zou

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XL performed the measurement and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript. CZ analyzed and reviewed the measured data. ZH performed the measurement. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Li, X., Hu, Z. & Zou, C. Noise annoyance and vibration perception assessment on passengers during train operation in Guangzhou Metro. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 4246–4259 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15896-x

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