Assessment of Level of Service and Acoustic Impacts of Road Segment in Sousse City

Manel Hjaeyj; Hana Mosbahi

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Assessment of Level of Service and Acoustic Impacts of Road Segment in Sousse City

Manel Hjaeyj, Hana Mosbahi

Published in International Journal of Transportation Engineering and Technology (Volume 8, Issue 2)

Received: 13 January 2022 Accepted: 10 March 2022 Published: 9 April 2022

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Abstract

The accelerated growth of the urban population and the expansion of cities, the intensification of economic exchanges as well as environmental concerns have made road traffic and its management one of the major challenges of sustainable development which causes especially in urban areas a higher traffic noise levels. The traffic growth of goods and people is the main cause of the saturation of traffic lanes and the difference between transport demand and supply is the cause of peak-hours congestion in large agglomeration. Therefore, this paper reports a case study to determine the level of service in the city of Sousse- Tunisia and study the performance of the different models of traffic noise. In the first part, it is found that the measured noise is mostly due to traffic noise. The second part determines the level of service of the road. The third part; compares the performance (equivalent sound level, Statistical noise levels and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE)) of the most known traffic noise models and closest to the measured sites “Burgess”, “Griffith & Langdon” and CSTB.

Published in	International Journal of Transportation Engineering and Technology (Volume 8, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijtet.20220802.11
Page(s)	24-29
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Equivalent Sound Level, Road Traffic Noise, Level of Service, Noise Level Statistics

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Manel Hjaeyj, Hana Mosbahi. (2022). Assessment of Level of Service and Acoustic Impacts of Road Segment in Sousse City. International Journal of Transportation Engineering and Technology, 8(2), 24-29. https://doi.org/10.11648/j.ijtet.20220802.11

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Manel Hjaeyj; Hana Mosbahi. Assessment of Level of Service and Acoustic Impacts of Road Segment in Sousse City. Int. J. Transp. Eng. Technol. 2022, 8(2), 24-29. doi: 10.11648/j.ijtet.20220802.11

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Manel Hjaeyj, Hana Mosbahi. Assessment of Level of Service and Acoustic Impacts of Road Segment in Sousse City. Int J Transp Eng Technol. 2022;8(2):24-29. doi: 10.11648/j.ijtet.20220802.11

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Manel Hjaeyj

Transport Technology and Engineering Department, Higher Institute of Transport and Logistics, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia
Hana Mosbahi

Transport Technology and Engineering Department, Higher Institute of Transport and Logistics, University of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia

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Manel Hjaeyj, Hana Mosbahi. Assessment of Level of Service and Acoustic Impacts of Road Segment in Sousse City. Int J Transp Eng Technol. 2022;8(2):24-29. doi: 10.11648/j.ijtet.20220802.11

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