A Study of Road Traffic Noise Annoyance on Daily Life in Agartala City Using Fuzzy Expert System and Multiple Regression Analysis

Noise has many ill effects on living beings as well as non-living things. The adverse effects of noise may include noise induced hearing loss, sleep disruption, speech interference, reduction in human work efficiency and annoyance. In this paper an effort has been made to develop a fuzzy expert based model to study the annoyance among the road side dwellers, employees working in road side offices, organizations, etc. due to road traffic noise pollution in Agartala city due to rapidly growing vehicular traffic. A relationship has been developed between different traffic noise parameters and its harmful impact on daily life of individuals using multiple regression analysis. In addition, statistical analysis was also carried out between measured and predictive values and a good agreement was noticed between observed and predicted value of noise based level.

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