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Figure 5-30 Transportation Noise Levels

Friday, January 6, 2012

Figure 5-30
Transportation Noise Levels

Figure 5-30. Transportation Noise Levels. If you are a user with a disability and cannot view this image, please call 800-853-1351 or email answers@bts.gov for further assistance.

Sources: Aircraft noise. adapted from 14 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 36, appendix C; Highway and railroad noise: P.M. Nelson, ed., Transportation Noise Reference Book (London, England: Butterworths, 1987) and T. Berge, Vehicle-Noise Emission Limits: Influence on Traffic Noise Levels Past and Future, Noise Control Engineering Journal, vol. 42, no. 2, March_April 1994; All other information adapted from Ann Arbor Science Publishers, Inc., Environmental Impact Data Book (Ann Arbor, MI: 1979).