Stop-and-Go Urban Traffic Noise Simulation and Prediction

This paper presents techniques for simulating of urban traffic noise along with a mathematical model of stop-and-go traffic noise for the road network in the city center. The road network in the central part of Bangkok surrounded by the cordon line of Rajchadapisek Ring Road was used as the study area. The analysed data consisted of traffic characteristics and its noise levels which were collected from the study area together with the geometrical dimensions of road sections at each data collection locations. Finally, the stop-and-go traffic noise models generated by this study in the form of acceleration and deceleration lane models, and their statistical goodness of fit tests are presented.