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TRB ADC40 Summer Meeting 2012
posted January 18, 2012
TRB ADC40 Summer Meeting
Asheville, North Carolina
July 22 - July 25
Summer of 2012 will be here in no time. We hope you will be able to join us for our annual summer meeting in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina. Please mark your calendars as you prepare for the next year! Click here for the flyer.
World Health Organization Report on Noise and Disease
posted August 17, 2011
Recently Published - Burden of Disease from Environmental Noise: Quantification of healthy life years lost in Europe
The health impacts of environmental noise are a growing concern among both the general public and policy-makers in Europe. This publication contains the summary of synthesized reviews of evidence on the relationship between environmental noise and specific health effects, including cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, sleep disturbance and tinnitus.
Quieter Pavements Webinar
posted August 3, 2011
On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, from 2:00-4:00pm EDT (11:00am-1:00pm PDT), TRB (including ADC40) is sponsoring a webinar on the "Principles and Practices of Quieter Pavements". The webinar will cover a range of topics: from the fundamentals of sound and texture, to research and policy directions related to the use of quieter pavements. It will illustrate noise measurement techniques and identification of quieter pavements, and categorize the mechanisms that lead to tire-pavement noise. Approaches for incorporating quieter pavement design and construction principles into current practices will be described, along with evaluating the role of a quieter pavement among other needs including safety, durability, and cost effectiveness. To register, please visit the TRB website.
For more information, download the webinar announcement:
[download pdf]
TRB Committee on Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration
ADC40 started out in September 1974 as a subcommittee, with a small group of
highway noise researchers who were responsible for much of the work performed in the
1970's on developing a methodology for predicting highway traffic noise. Established as a
full committee [initial membership] at the 54th Annual TRB Meeting in January 1975, the then designated A1F04 group held its first review of federal research and a workshop on noise prediction in September of that year. This was the predecessor to the current ADC40 summer meeting.
In addition
to annual meetings in Washington, D.C., summer meetings have been
held since 1979 in states all around the country... [READ MORE]