TRANSPORTATION

RESEARCH BOARD

COMMITTEE A1F04

"TRANSPORTATION-RELATED

NOISE AND VIBRATION"

NEWSLETTER

DECEMBER 1999

From the Chairman:

Welcome to the A1F04 November/December newsletter for 1999. This has been our traditional mechanism for transmitting information to committee members regarding the Annual TRB meeting in January. As of the time of this printing, the newsletter (as well as many other new and exciting things) should be available on the A1F04 web site at http//www.tiac.net/users/a1f04/. Currently not all committee members have internet access, and as such we'll continue distributing hard copies of the newsletters for some time to come, but eventually – probably in the next couple of years – we'll be able to distribute all committee information via the A1F04 web site. I strongly suggest members start using this valuable resource, and I encourage all to forward ideas to me on how to enhance the site.

Most committee members are aware that TRB's upcoming annual meeting will be held in Washington, D.C. between January 9th and 13th. Enclosed with the newsletter are agendas for all A1F04-related sessions. A convenient single page schedule/summary sheet is also included. As has been the case in the past, all A1F04-related sessions will be held at the Washington Hilton. However, I would like to bring your special attention to two items: (1) the meeting place of the highway noise subcommittee; and (2) the times for the air and guided-rail noise subcommittee meetings. The meeting for the highway subcommittee session will take place in a sectioned-off portion of the Exhibit Hall (Concourse Level) in the Hilton. The meeting time for the aircraft noise subcommittee will be 8:00 to 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday the 11th, and the guided-transit noise subcommittee will meet immediately following from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. I mention these times because they reflect a slight shift from previous schedules that you may have seen. The A1F04 sessions are structured such that the subcommittee meetings will take place on Tuesday, January 11th, the paper sessions will take place on Wednesday, January 12th, the Harter Rupert Awards dinner will take place the evening of the 12th, and to keep everyone from leaving early (hopefully), the main committee meeting will take place during the morning of the 13th.

You'll notice on the enclosed meeting agenda that the aircraft noise subcommittee meeting will be co-hosted by Larry Finegold and Neil Philips. The reason for this is that we'll be having a "changing of the guard" at the January meeting. Due to a restructuring in the U.S. Air Force Larry will no longer be working in the area of environmental noise. Neil Philips, whom many of you know, comes to us from the Washington Metropolitan Airports Authority. As incoming chair, Neil brings to the aircraft noise subcommittee a broad range of expertise in the area of aviation noise regulation, policy, modeling and monitoring. On behalf of the A1F04 committee I'd like to welcome Neil as the incoming chair. I look forward to his anticipated many years of leadership and novel thinking. I'd also like to thank Larry for his valuable insight and leadership for the past two years.

With regard to the committee dinner, come join us in honoring this year's recipients of the Harter Rupert Award for the best paper on transportation-related noise: John Jaeckel, Alex Satanovsky, David Kuemmel, Ronald Sonntag, and Yosef Becker. Their paper is entitled Noise Issues of Concrete Pavement Texturing. Congratulations Guys!!! The dinner will take place at Tom Sarris' Orleans House on Wednesday Evening, January 12, beginning at 6:30 p.m. See the enclosed dinner reservation form for more details. I want to specially thank Steve Ronning for organizing the awards dinner. Reservations and payments must be submitted to Steve by December 22nd and January 5th, respectively.

One very special item to take note of for this year's meeting: during the main committee session on Thursday, TRB officials will be immortalizing long-time A1F04 committee member Grant Anderson. Grant will be provided official TRB emeritus status We are all aware of Grant's many accomplishments so I won't go into them here. However, I have attached a copy of the letter that was drafted on behalf of the committee by Chris Menge. This letter along with the committee's unanimous vote (in favor) led to Grant being awarded TRB emeritus status. Grant joins Eric Stusnick as the committee's only members with emeritus status. Be sure to come to the committee meeting for the presentation. Also, anyone wishing to nominate other individuals for emeritus status should contact me. As a committee, I have established a goal of nominating at least one member each year.

As much as I encourage members to attend all A1F04-related meetings I want to particularly encourage individuals to attend the special session on rail noise that Jim Nelson has arranged. Jim has put together a fantastic agenda with a host of dynamic speakers that have decades of practical experience in the area of rail noise (See the attached agenda). The session will take place on Wednesday the 12th at 8:00 a.m. in the Jefferson East room of the Hilton. Spread the word!

The final noise-related item I'd like to touch upon with regard to the annual meeting has to do with two sessions sponsored by the pavement folks which deal with the "hot" topic of tire/road noise. For those of you interested, those sessions are summarized below:

Session 182

Tuesday, 8:00 a.m.-9:45 a.m., Shoreham

Evaluation of Bituminous Surfaces to Reduce Noise and Increase Friction

Rebecca S. McDaniel, North Central Superpave Center, presiding

Sponsored by Committee on Characteristics of Bituminous-Aggregate Combinations

to Meet Surface Requirements

An Angular Parameter for Characterizing Road Surface Microtexture, 00-1399

Minh-Tan Do, Laboratoire Central Des Ponts Et Chaussees; Hassan Zahouani and

Roberto Vargiolu, Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systemes

Case Studies of a Low-Noise Road Surface, 00-1235

Michael J. Brennan, Alan M. Kavanagh, and Jerome N. Sheahan, National

University of Ireland, Galway

Noise Abatement in Asphalt Concrete Pavements: Part 1-- Nondestructive

Estimation of Characteristic Lengths Using an Impulse-Echo Approach, 00-1400

Henrique L.M. Reis, Amin K. Habboub, and Samuel H. Carpenter, University of

Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Noise Abatement in Asphalt Concrete Pavement: Part 2 -- Estimation of Acoustic

Properties, 00-1401

Henrique L.M. Reis, Amin K. Habboub, and Samuel H. Carpenter, University of

Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Session 208

Tuesday, 10:15 a.m.-noon, Marriott

Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Texture and Noise: What We've Learned

Steven L. Tritsch, American Concrete Pavement Association, presiding

Sponsored by Committee on Portland Cement Concrete Pavement Construction

Wisconsin Noise Study Results

David A. Kuemmel, Marquette University

Development and Evaluation of Minnesota DOT's New Surface Texture Specification

David L. Rettner, Minnesota Department of Transportation

PCC Texturing Methods in Colorado

Ahmad A. Ardani, Colorado Department of Transportation

For those individuals interested in TRB activities in subject areas other than noise, the full preliminary Annual Meeting Program is available online, along with registration information at http://www.national-academies.org/trb/meeting.

Also, Y2K is the year for three-year rotation on/off the official TRB committee roster. For those of you willing to be moved from the official roster please let me know either via phone or email (617.494.2876 or fleming@volpe.dot.gov). I need to rotate at least 1/3 of the committee members by February 1, 2000, and it would save me great pains to have volunteers rather than having to decide myself. There are two related questions I often hear asked: (1) how do I benefit from being on the official TRB roster; and (2) how do I know if I'm on the official roster. To answer the first question, there really aren't any particular benefits, other than to say "I'm on the official roster". The only real difference between official and unofficial status is that you'll receive periodic editions of TRB News. With regards to the second question – knowing if you're on the official roster – if you receive TRB News, you're on the official roster. However, if you are still in doubt, official TRB members are denoted as such on the A1F04 web site.

The last thing I want to mention is related to the upcoming summer meeting scheduled for July 18-
20, 2000 in Mid-town New York City, NY. Bill McColl from NY DOT will be hosting the meeting and I hope to have more specific details in January. Directly related, I would like to begin spreading the news early with regard to the A1F04 summer meeting scholarship program. This program was originally started in 1997 at the Toronto meeting. At that time the primary purpose of the program was to expand attendance by the various state transportation agencies. Initially the program was limited to state agencies and associated transportation authorities. However, due to very poor response from the states I decided to expand the program to include any and all A1F04 members and friends. In many ways I believe the expansion was beneficial to the committee because it has brought individuals to our summer meeting who otherwise probably wouldn't have attended, including several very knowledgeable international participants. However, on more than one occasion in the past year I have heard either first or second hand from individuals from state transportation agencies or transportation authorities who were not aware of the scholarship program. I know many of you deal with the states on a daily basis. Please encourage them to apply for the scholarship! And any state representatives reading this please apply!!! As it turned out last year I had to call people offering scholarships. This needs to change. Anyone interested in the scholarship program should contact Cyndy Lee at 617.494.2372 or lee@volpe.dot.gov.

Hope to see all of you in January!!!

Committee A1F04-Related Sessions for

2000 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board

(All Meeting Rooms Located at the Washington Hilton Hotel)

Session	Tuesday

January 11, 2000	Wednesday

January 12, 2000

FIRST

MORNING

SESSIONS

8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

Aircraft Noise	Subcommittee A1F04(1)

Larry Finegold,

U.S.AF/Armstrong Labs, co-chair

&

Neil Philips

Metropolitan Washington Airports

Authority, co-chair

Grant Room	8:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.

Rail Transportation Noise Control

(Session 355)

James T. Nelson

Wilson, Ihrig & Associates, presiding

Jefferson East

SECOND

MORNING

SESSIONS

10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.

Guided Transit Noise Subcommittee A1F04 (2)

James T. Nelson,

Wilson, Ihrig & Associates, chair

Grant Room	10:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 1

(Session 389)

Cynthia S.Y. Lee,

Volpe Center Acoustics Facility,	presiding

Jefferson East

AFTERNOON

SESSIONS	2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Highway Noise	Subcommittee A1F04 (3)

Kenneth D. Polcak,

Maryland State Highway Administration,

chair

Exhibit Hall, Concourse Level	2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 2

(Session 418)

Judith L. Rochat

Volpe Center Acoustics Facility,	presiding

Jefferson East

EVENING

SESSIONS

Open	6:30 p.m. (cash bar)

7:30 p.m. (dinner)

Awards Dinner

Orleans House
Thursday

January 13, 2000
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

A1F04 Committee

Gregg G. Fleming,

Volpe Center Acoustics Facility, chair

Caucus Room

TRB Annual Meeting

Aircraft Noise Subcommittee A1F04(1)

Tuesday, January 11, 2000 (8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.)

Grant Room

Washington Hilton Hotel

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

I.	Call to Order

II.	Welcome and Introductions of Members and Guests

III.	Reports

A.	Remaining TRB Week Activities

B.	Summer Meeting 1999 - San Diego, CA

C.	Others

IV.	Announcements

A.	A1F04 Awards Dinner

B.	A1F04 Summer Meeting 2000 - New York City

V.	Presentations

VI.	Open Discussion on Topics of Mutual Interest

VII.	Adjournment

TRB Annual Meeting

Guided Transit Noise Subcommittee A1F04(2)

Tuesday, January 11, 2000 (10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.)

Grant Room

Washington Hilton Hotel

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

I.	Introductions

II.	Administration

III.	Announcements

IV.	Research

A.	Current TCRP Research Projects

B.	Other research activities

C.	New Research Ideas

IV.	Papers for 2001 Annual Meeting

V.	Presentations

VI.	Discussion

VII.	Closing Remarks

TRB Annual Meeting

Highway Noise Subcommittee A1F04(3)

Tuesday, January 11, 2000 (2:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.)

Exhibit Hall, Concourse Level

Washington Hilton Hotel

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

I.	Call to Order

II.	Welcome and Introductions of Members and Guests

III.	Reports/News

A.	Remaining TRB Week Activities

B.	A1F04 Summer Meeting 1999 – San Diego, CA

C.	Others

IV.	Announcements

A.	A1F04 Awards Dinner

B.	A1F04 Summer Meeting 2000 – New York

V.	Presentations / Status Reports (Order subject to change)

A.	Update/Report on Validation Work for TNM - Ms. Judith Rochat, Volpe Center

Acoustics Facility.

B.	Update/Report on TNM Version 1.1 Development - Ms. Cynthia Lee, Volpe Center

Acoustics Facility

C.	Status of the FHWA Noise Barrier Design Manual development – Mr. Harvey

Knauer, Environmental Acoustics, Inc.

VI.	Open Discussion

VII.	Adjournment

TRB Annual Meeting

Committee A1F04

Thursday, January 13, 2000 (9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)

Caucus Room

Washington Hilton Hotel

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

I.	Call to Order

II.	Welcome and Introduction of Members and Guests

III.	Statements by Jon Williams, TRB Staff Liaison; and

Tom Weck, Section Chairman

A.	Presentation of Emeritus Status to Grant Anderson

IV.	Review of Minutes from January 1999 Meeting - Gregg Fleming

V.	Reports

A.	Summer 1999 Meeting - Gregg Fleming

B.	1999/2000 Activities & Sessions - Gregg Fleming

C.	Aircraft Noise Update - Larry Finegold & Neil Philips

D.	Guided Transit Noise Update - Jim Nelson

E.	Highway Noise Update - Ken Polcak

VI.	Presentations

A.	George Penesis, Konheim & Ketcham: "Observations regarding best practices for highway noise modeling and sound barrier design"

B.	Larry Finegold, United States Air Force, Armstrong Laboratories: "Future Transportation Noise Research & Policy Agenda, Part 2"

VII.	Discussion

A.	A1F04 Summer Meeting (2000) - Gregg Fleming

B.	Others (Wall Journal)

VIII. Announcements

A.	A1F04 Awards Dinner - Steve Ronning

B.	Others

IX.	Adjournment

TRB Annual Meeting

Rail Transportation Noise Control (Session 355)

Wednesday, January 12, 2000 (8:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m.)

Jefferson East

Washington Hilton Hotel

James T. Nelson, Wilson, Ihrig and Associates, Inc., presiding

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Measurements of Noise Source Locations on Amtrak's New High Speed Train

Bernd Barsikow, Akustik Data and Carl Hanson, Harris Miller Miller and Hanson Inc.

A Hybrid Active Passive Exhaust Noise Suppression System for Diesel Locomotives

Paul Remington, Scott Knight, Douglas Hanna, and Craig Rowley, BBN Systems & Technologies

Using Theoretical Models to Design Low Noise Wheels and Track

David Thompson and C.J. Jones, ISVR at Southampton University, UK

Railway Noise Reduction by Controlling Wheel and Rail Roughness

Peter Dings, NS Technische Onderzoek

TRB Annual Meeting

Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 1 (Session 389)

Wednesday, January 12, 2000 (10:15 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.)

Jefferson East

Washington Hilton Hotel

Cynthia S.Y. Lee, Volpe Center Acoustics Facility, presiding

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Community Noise Issues Around a NASCAR Racing Facility

James P. Cowan, Acentech, Inc.

Traffic and Environmental Considerations in Urban Interchanges

Mathew G. Karlaftis and George Mikroudis, ADK Consulting Engineers S.A.

A Noise Contour Comparison of Stage 3 Hushkit Options for the Boeing 727-200

W. Evert Meyer and William J. Wilkie, Leigh Fisher Associates

Experience Predicting Construction Site Noise

Michael A. Staiano, Staiano Engineering, Inc.

TRB Annual Meeting

Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 2 (Session 418)

Wednesday, January 12, 2000 (2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.)

Jefferson East

Washington Hilton Hotel

Judith L. Rochat, Volpe Center Acoustics Facility, presiding

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

Investigation of Tire/Road Noise Levels for Various Ohio Pavements

Lloyd A. Herman and Matt J. Ambroziak, Ohio University, and Elvin Pickney, Ohio Department of Transportation

Noise Issues of Concrete Pavement Texturing

John R. Jaeckel and Alex Satanovsky, HNTB Corporation, and David A. Kuemmel, Ronald C. Sonntag, and Yosef Z. Becker, Marquette University,

Design of a Randomized Tining Rake for PCC Pavements Using Spectral Analysis

Zia Saad, David A. Kuemmel, Kristina Ropella, and Yosef Z. Becker, Marquette University, and John R. Jaeckel and Alex Satanovsky, HNTB Corporation

A Survey of State DOTs Regarding Pavement Tire Noise

Roger L. Wayson, University of Central Florida

Statistical Methods for Environmental Studies: An Analysis of Measured vs. Modeled Highway Noise Levels

Lawrence Pesesky and Rachael Conaty, Louis Berger Group, Inc.

Integrating TNM and Traffic Flow Theory to Provide Freeway Noise Impact Analysis Early in Project Development

Peter T. Kleeman, Techniquest

TRB January 2000 Annual Meeting

Committee on Transportation Related Noise and Vibration, A1F04

WHAT:	Committee Dinner

Harter Rupert Award for the Best Paper on Transportation Noise

(Recipients: John Jaeckel, Alex Satanovsky, David Kuemmel, Ronald Sonntag, and Yosef Becker)

WHEN:	January 12, 2000, Wednesday Evening

TIME:	Cocktails at 6:30 p.m. (cash bar) - Dinner at 7:30 p.m.

WHERE:	Tom Sarris' Orleans House (same location as last year)

1213 Wilson Boulevard in Rosslyn, Virginia

(Rosslyn Stop on Orange/Blue Line of METRO)

WHO:	Committee Members and Friends

COST:	$18.00 for Prime Rib or ½ Baked Chicken, Salad Bar, Roast Potato,

Coffee or Tea, Ice Cream (Tax & Tip included)

$23.00 for Stuffed Shrimp or Stuffed Flounder, Salad Bar, Roast Potato,

Coffee or Tea, Ice Cream (Tax & Tip included)

WE NEED TO HAVE A FIRM COUNT OF ATTENDEES AND CHOICE OF MENU SELECTIONS BY WEDNESDAY, DEC. 22nd TO FINALIZE RESERVATIONS WITH THE RESTAURANT. PAYMENT MAY BE MADE IN ADVANCE OR ON THE DAY OF THE DINNER! PAYMENTS MADE BY CHECK (PAYABLE TO: STEVE RONNING) MUST BE RECEIVED BY JAN. 5th. ALL PAYMENTS RECEIVED AFTER JAN. 5th MUST BE IN CASH (THIS ESPECIALLY APPLIES TO MIKE S.).

Please call Bob Armstrong or Steve Ronning (202-366-2073 or 2078) for information and a reservation, e-mail to: steven.ronning@fhwa.dot.gov, or detach and mail in the form below.

___________________________________________________________________________

Name _______________________________________ No. Attending ____________________

Address ______________________________________________________________________

City ______________________________, State ________________________, Zip _________

Phone Number __(____)_______________________

Enclosed $________________________ (make checks payable to: Steve Ronning)

CHECKS MUST BE RECEIVED BY JAN. 5th.

Number of:	Prime Rib______

Baked Chicken______

Stuffed Shrimp______

Stuffed Flounder______

Send to:	Steve Ronning

FHWA, HEP-40

400 7th Street SW

Washington, DC 20590

August 10, 1999

Thomas L. Weck

TRB Section F Chairperson

President, Louis Berger & Associates, Inc.

100 Halsted Street

East Orange, New Jersey 07019

Dear Mr. Weck,

Committee A1F04, Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration, of the Transportation Research Board (TRB) is pleased to nominate Mr. Grant Anderson for Emeritus Membership. Mr. Anderson has been actively involved in TRB noise committee activities since the committee's inception in 1974. During the very first TRB-sponsored meeting concerning noise, the "Noise Subcommittee Workshop on Vehicle Noise Control," held December 10-11, 1974 in Washington, D.C., Mr. Anderson was moderator of a session on state and local regulations.

During his 25 years of active and dedicated service, his contributions to the Committee and to many related transportation noise research and policy activities throughout the United States have been numerous and consistently of the highest quality. In addition to his Committee work, Mr. Anderson is noted for his essential contributions to the development of highway noise prediction models in use throughout the U.S., including STAMINA/OPTIMA and the recently-released FHWA Traffic Noise Model. In addition to being substantially responsible for the development of these important models, Mr. Anderson designed and conducted the pilot training courses for them. In fact, he still actively instructs users of the TNM.

From 1974 to the present, Mr. Anderson has participated in most of the TRB Annual Meetings, as well as the annual summer meetings of our A1F04 Committee. Following is a list of presentations, papers and other activities he has contributed to TRB:

A.	"NCHRP Project 3-7/3 Results", and "Detailed Differences Between the Revised Design Guide and the Two Authorized Methods," Conference on Highway Traffic Noise Prediction Methods, September 23-24, 1975, Washington, D.C.

B.	"The Barrier Cost Reduction Program: A New Tool to Reduce Noise Barrier Costs" (with C.W. Menge), 1978 Conference on Highway Traffic Noise Mitigation, December 11-15, 1978, Los Angeles, CA.

C.	"The Barrier Cost Reduction (BCR) Program: A Supplement to FHWA's STAMINA" (with C.W. Menge), Transportation Research Record 740, Transportation Research Board, 1980.

D.	"Effects of Overhead Reflections: a San Antonio Case Study" and "STAMINA Computer Graphics: Plans, Elevations, Profiles and Sections - a Demonstration at the Terminal", 1983 Summer Meeting August 15-16, 1983, Boston, MA.

E.	"Noise Studies for the San Antonio 'Y' Project," Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, January 1984. Winner of the 1984 TRB Award for Outstanding Paper on Transportation Noise Control.

F.	"Noise and the Blue Route", (with H. Knauer), 1986 Summer Meeting July 22-25, 1986, Toronto, Ontario.

G.	"Parallel Barriers - A Ray-Tracing Program for Completely General Cross Sections," 1991 Summer Meeting, July 21-23, 1991, Milwaukee, WI.

H.	"Interactive Demonstration of the FHWA Traffic Noise Model", 1996 Summer Meeting, July 21-24, 1996, Lisle, IL.

I.	"TNM REMELs are Plus/Minus 0.2 dB - How do we know? ... and Are Your Project REMELs That Precise?", 1997 Summer Meeting, July 20-23, 1997, Toronto, Ontario.

As Principal Consultant at Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc. and before that at Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc., Mr. Anderson has played a leading role in numerous ground breaking scientific advances in the area of transportation-related noise. These activities have been a major focus of the above cited presentations and papers.

In addition to the TRB papers and presentations listed above, Mr. Anderson has also served as chairman of A1F04's highway noise subcommittee, and has been an active participant in TRB's Environmental Research Needs Conferences. Also, Mr Anderson has served the committee by providing careful scientific and professional review of numerous papers prior to presentation at the TRB Annual Meeting and subsequent publication in the TRB Research Records.

Mr. Anderson is regarded by his peers as one of the premier researchers in the field of transportation-
related noise. He was an active member of Committee A1F04 from 1975 to 1990, and has been continuously active through the Highway Noise Subcommittee and as a Committee Friend from 1991 to 1999. Mr. Anderson has shared his abundant creativity and scientific rigor with the TRB noise community. On behalf of Committee A1F04, it is my sincere pleasure to nominate Mr. Grant Anderson for TRB Emeritus Membership.

If you have any questions regarding this nomination, please contact me at the telephone number listed below.

Sincerely Yours,

Gregg G. Fleming

Chairman, A1F04 Committee

(617) 494-2372

cc:	J. Williams; TRB

W. Lindeman; FLDOT

K. Polcak; MDSHA

L. Finegold; USAF

J. Nelson; Wilson Ihrig & Associates

A.	SAE Activities

TRB Summer Conference on Transportation and the Environment for the 21st Century, July 22-26, 2000

Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Research Needs

???SQDHI Update???