DETECTION OF THE ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE: XIPU AS A STUDY CASE

ABSTRACT Noise pollution can be considered as the second most dangerous pollution after air pollution that is encountered in daily life. Recently, the noise and air pollution rate are increased because of the rapid increase in the number of vehicles. In this study, traffic noise was detected in the roads of xipu city by the use of sound level meter (NK-2) with accuracy ±1.5 for the measurement of the noise level which is carried out on a daily basis for more than one month from (Dec. to Feb.) during working days. Two models were used in this paper (Burgess and NAISS), the results after the comparison between the observed value with the estimated value and the other two models give acceptable results. With the R2 for all the results gives good values. Keywords: traffic noise; Burgess; NAISS; traffic volume; traffic pollution