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Erik M. Salomons and Sabine A. Janssen
In environmental noise control one commonly employs the A-weighted sound level as an approximate measure of the effect of noise on people. A measure that is more closely related to direct human perception of noise is the loudness level. At constant A-wei...
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Shuchang Liu, Zhong Yang, Zhao Zhang, Runqiang Jiang, Tongyang Ren, Yuan Jiang, Shuang Chen and Xiaokai Zhang
The aircraft anti-skid braking system (AABS) plays an important role in aircraft taking off, taxiing, and safe landing. In addition to the disturbances from the complex runway environment, potential component faults, such as actuators faults, can also re...
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Miaomiao Liu, Yining Huang, Rosemary Hiscock, Qin Li, Jun Bi, Patrick L. Kinney and Clive E. Sabel
As public expectations for health rise, health measurements broaden from a focus on death, disease, and disability to wellbeing. However, wellbeing hasn?t been incorporated into the framework of climate change policy decision-making in Chinese cities. Ba...
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Esraa Othman, Iva Cibilic, Vesna Posloncec-Petric and Dina Saadallah
Environmental noise is a major environmental concern in metropolitan cities. The rapid social and economic growth in the 20th century is not always accompanied by adequate land planning and environmental management measures. As a consequence of rapid urb...
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Kiumars Askari and Michele Cremaschi
Estimating the environmental impact of aviation, in terms of noise and emissions, requires accurate knowledge of flight parameters such as departure/arrival procedure, aircraft mass, thrust and flap settings. However, these parameters are not available f...
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Francisco Javier Rodrigo, Jaime Ramis, Jesus Carbajo and Pedro Poveda
Anthropogenic noise is a growing threat to marine life due to the incrementation of human activity in the marine environment. In Europe, the Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council was published with the aim of establishing a f...
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Dorota Jarosinska, Marie-Ève Héroux, Poonum Wilkhu, James Creswick, Jos Verbeek, Jördis Wothge and Elizabet Paunovic
Following the Parma Declaration on Environment and Health adopted at the Fifth Ministerial Conference (2010), the Ministers and representatives of Member States in the WHO European Region requested the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop updated g...
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Oliver Lah
Pág. 5083 - 5093
Many low-carbon transport strategies can help achieve other economic, social and environmental objectives. These include improving access to mobility, reducing traffic and parking congestion, saving consumers money, supporting economic development, incre...
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Hemant Nandanpawar
Pág. 364 - 372
Transport sector is one of the largest contributors of energy related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions globally and is expected to grow 50 percent by 2050. Controlling GHG emission growth of transport sector is necessary in view of limiting the global temp...
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Pradeep Chaitanya Jasti, V. Vinayaka Ram
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Modal Shares of Public Transports are declining in many developing cities in India. Deteriorating quality of Public Transport has forced many commuters to shift from Public Transport to Personal modes. This shift has translated into ever increasing traff...
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Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès, Marc Vilella, Marc Pons and Robert Garcia Almazan
In the new paradigm of the smart cities world, public opinion is one of the most important issues in the new conception of urban space and its corresponding regulations. The data collection in terms of environmental noise cannot only be related to the va...
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