Agenda for Summer Meeting, 1996


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Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Committee on Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration (A1F04)
1996 Summer Meeting
July 21-24, 1996
Lisle/Naperville Hilton, Lisle, IL





Sunday, July 21
4:00 p.m. Check-in and Registration
7:00 p.m. Welcome Reception in Hotel


Monday, July 22
7:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Sponsored by Concrete Solutions, Inc.)
8:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
8:35 a.m. Interactive Demonstration of the FHWA Traffic Noise Model Grant S. Anderson, Harris Miller Miller & Hanson Inc.
10:35 a.m. Morning Break (Vendor Display Area - Sponsored by Carsonite International and Concrete Solutions, Inc.)
11:05 a.m. Public Opinion of I-71 Noise Barrier Effectiveness Lloyd A. Herman, Ph.D., Center for Geotechnical and Environmental Research, Ohio University
11:30 p.m. Lunch at Hotel (Sponsored by H. W. Lochner)
12:45 p.m. Technical Tour (Choice of Tour of Riverbank Acoustical Laboratories operated by IIT Research Institute or Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago - Mainstream Pumping Station in the Tunnel and Reservoir Project)
5:00 p.m. Dinner event and Shoreline Sightseeing at Navy Pier (Buses will depart at 5:15 p.m.)
10:45 p.m. Buses depart Navy Pier for Hotel


Tuesday, July 23
7:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Sponsored by Industrial Acoustics Company, Inc.)
8:05 a.m. Aircraft Community Noise Impact Model (ACNIM) Eric Stusnick, Xin Zhuang, Wyle Laboratories, Inc.
8:35 a.m. PennDOT's New Noise Video, Roy Osborne Pennsylvania Department of Transportation James P. Cowan, INCE Bd. Cert., McCormick, Taylor & Associates, Inc.
9:05 a.m. Offering Testimony in Court from the Noise Expert's Point of View James P. Cowan, INCE Bd. Cert., McCormick, Taylor & Associates, Inc.
9:35 a.m. Good Fences Make Good Neighbors: Highway Noise Barriers and the Landscape Domenick Billera, New Jersey Department of Transportation, Richard Parsons and S. Hetrick, Gannett Fleming Engineers
10:05 a.m. Morning Break (Vendor Display Area - Sponsored by Sound Zero Corp.)
10:35 a.m. Validation of Aircraft Noise Models at Lower Levels of Exposure Juliet A. Page, Kenneth J. Plotkin (presented by Eric Stusnick), Wyle Laboratories, Inc.
11:05 a.m. NASA Advanced Subsonic Technology Noise Reduction Program Frank Jones, NASA Langley Research Center, Noise Reduction Program Office
11:30 p.m. Lunch at Hotel (Sponsored by Concrete Solutions, Inc. and Concrete Placement Systems, Inc.)
12:45 p.m. Technical Tour (Choice of Tour of O'Hare International Airport Noise Abatement Department or Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago - Mainstream Pumping Station in the Tunnel and Reservoir Project)
5:00 p.m. Chicago White Sox vs. Oakland Athletics Baseball Game at Comiskey Park in Chicago or Hollywood Casino 3-hour gaming session in Aurora, IL (Buses will depart at 5:15 p.m.)
10:00 p.m. Bus departs from Aurora for Hotel at conclusion of Hollywood Casino event
11:00 p.m. Bus departs from Chicago for Hotel at conclusion of White Sox event


Wednesday, July 24
7:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast (Sponsored by H. W. Lochner, Inc.)
8:05 a.m. Stop the Whine! Narrow Band Noise Level Measurements of Three Highway Pavements Domenick Billera, New Jersey Department of Transportation; Bela Schmidt and W. Miller, Louis Berger Associates
8:35 a.m. A HITEC Evaluation of the US Gypsum Sight and Sound Screen Louis F. Cohn and Roswell A. Harris, University of Louisville; Timothy Tonyan, US Gypsum Research Center
9:05 a.m. Pensacola Weigh-in-Motion Site Noise Study: A Case History Win Lindeman, Florida Department of Transportation
9:35 a.m. Noise Characteristics of Pavement Surface Texture in Wisconsin David A. Kuemmel, P.E., Center for Highway and Traffic Engineering, Marquette University; John R. Jaeckel, P.E., and Alexander Satanovsky, P.E., HNTB Corporation; Stephen F. Shober, P.E., and Mitzi M. Dobersek, P.E., Wisconsin Department of Transportation
10:05 a.m. Morning Break (Vendor Display Area - Sponsored by H. W. Lochner, Inc.)
10:35 a.m. Interrupted Flow Reference Energy Mean Emission Levels for the FHWA Traffic Noise Model William Bowlby and Srvinivas Chiguluri, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Vanderbilt University; Roger L. Wayson and M. Martin, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Central Florida; Lloyd A. Herman, Ph.D., Center for Geotechnical and Environmental Research, Ohio University
11:05 a.m. Use of Contours for Reporting Highway Traffic Sound Levels Michael A. Staiano, Staiano Engineering, Inc.
11:35 a.m. Sound Phenomenon from the Mayan Ruins Roger L. Wayson, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Central Florida and Michael A. Staiano, Staiano Engineering, Inc.
Noon Adjournment



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