Audio noise mapping for virtual urban simulations: enhancing public awareness
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Murphy E., Pilla F., Rice H., Audio noise mapping for virtual urban simulations: enhancing public awareness, INTERNOISE 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007Download Item:
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Abstract:
One of the key difficulties with urban environmental noise mapping is disseminating results
from noise studies in a manner that is easily under
stood by the general public. Indeed, it is
one of the requirements of the Environmental Noise
Directive (END) that information from
noise studies is disseminated to the general public
so that awareness of environmental noise
issues is increased. This paper presents preliminary work undertaken to integrate results
from environmental noise studies into a virtual sound environment. The model uses
appropriate sound mixing techniques to integrate background sound from prediction
software while direct sound is integrated from appropriate sound samples. In the virtual
environment sound is output using audio rendering and clustering techniques which take
account of the position of the individual in the virtual environment. The model
demonstrates the possibility of using virtual urban
simulations as a framework for
evaluating the environmental and visual impact of major urban developments particularly in
terms of the impact on the surrounding urban sounds
cape. In addition, the model
framework may be used as a demonstration method whereby the sensitivity of the urban
sound environment to different traffic management scenarios is presented to urban
inhabitants.
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PUBLISHEDIstanbul, Turkey
Author: PILLA, FRANCESCO
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INTERNOISE 2007Type of material:
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Urban NoiseSubject (TCD):
Smart & Sustainable Planet , Noise , auralisation , noise modelling , noise perceptionLicences: