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Noise & Vibration Committee Conference
Seattle, Washington

Full Agenda

Day 1,
Monday, July 18, 2005

Presentations -
Noise Policy & Program Implementation, Land Use & Development, and Public Issues

Time Title

Presented by

8:30 - 8:45
AM
Welcome & Logistics -

Ken Polcak
ADC40 Chair, Maryland State Highway Admin

Mia Waters
WSDOT

8:45 - 9:30
AM

Status of Current FHWA Noise Activities (1) Mark Ferroni
Federal Highway Administration
9:30 - 9:50
AM
New NHI Traffic Noise Fundamentals Training Course and its Interactive Graphics Teaching Component (2)

Mark Ferroni
Federal Highway Administration

Bill Bowlby Bowlby & Associates, Inc.

10:30 - 10:50
AM

Uncertainties in noise measurement and prediction and their implications in community noise (3)

Supporting Document(3)

Rich Peppin
Scantek Inc
10:50 - 11:10
AM
Colorado Noise Program (4) Bob Mero
Colorado DOT
11:10 - 11:30
AM
Tennessee DOT's New Type II Noise Barrier Program (5) Bill Bowlby
Bowlby & Associates, Inc.
11:30 - 11:50
AM
Ohio DOT and Noise-compatible Development (6)

Adam Alexander & Ohio DOT

Bill Bowlby Bowlby & Associates, Inc.

1:00 - 1:30
Benaroya Concert Hall vibration & acoustical isolation from heavy rail & bus tunnels (7) George Wilson
Wilson, Ihrig & Associates
Day 2
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Presentation -
Vibration
Time
Title Presented by
8:30 - 9:10
AM
Sound Transit Light Rail Vibration Issues at the University of Washington (8) James Irish
Sound Transit

Steven Wolf
Parsons Brinkerhoff

James Nelson
Wilson, Ihrig & Assoc.

 
Presentations -
Tire / Pavement Noise
Time
Title Presented by
9:10 - 9:30
AM
Traffic Noise Abatement by Pavement Grinding in Ohio (9) Lloyd Herman
Ohio University
9:30 - 10:00
AM

Quiet Pavement Pilot program, Arizona

Designing for Quiet Pavements (10)

Overview of the ADOT Quiet Pavement Program (11)

Fred Garcia
Arizona DOT

Christ Dimitroplos Arizona DOT

Emily Paulsen
HDR

10:40 - 11:00
AM
FHWA Texture-Noise Study for Concrete Pavements (12) Robert Otto Rasmussen
Transtec Group
11:00 - 11:20
AM
ISU-FHWA-ACPA Field Study on Concrete Pavement Solutions for Tire-Pavement Noise and other Surface Characteristics (12 continued) Robert Otto Rasmussen
Transtec Group
11:20 - 11:40
AM
Quiet Pavement Testing in B.C. (13) Duane Marriner Wakefield Acoustics
11:40 - 12:00 PM
Overview of Quiet Pavement program in California and CALTRANS Truck Noise Source Location Studies (14)

Bruce Rymer California Dept of Transportation

Paul Donavan Illingworth & Rodkin, Inc.

 
Presentation -
Noise Sources & Movement
Time
Title Presented by
1:15 - 1:35 PM
Atmospheric effects on propagation of highway noise in the Phoenix valley (15) Hugh Saurenman
ATS Consulting
1:35 - 2:00 PM
Highway noise levels in Scottsdale Arizona under early morning inversion conditions (16)

Hugh Saurenman for Jim Chambers University of Mississippi

Hugh Saurenman
ATS Consulting

2:00 - 2:20 PM
Design Challenges for Seattle Sound Transit Underground Stations Public Address Systems (17) Paul Burgé
Acentech, Inc.
2:45 - 3:05 PM
Refinement of sound intensity measurement, NITE study comparison Europe and US pavements (18) Paul Donavan Illingworth & Rodkin
3:05 - 3:25 PM
Double-decker noise modeling, capturing the reflection for the Alaska Way Viaduct (19) Lawrence Spurgeon Parsons Brinkerhoff
3:35 - 3:45 PM
Reflective Noise Modeling with TNM, examples and results from the Interstate 5 Ship Canal Bridge project. (20) Jim Laughlin
WSDOT
3:45 - 4:00 PM
Should multiple highway lanes equal multiple TNM roadways? (21) Matthew McDuffee Acentech, Inc.
4:15 - 5:30 PM

ADC40 Noise & Vibration Committee Meeting

 

Ken Polcak, Committee Chair Maryland State Highway Admin.
Day 3
Wednesday, July 20
2005
Presentation -
Construction Noise
Time
Title Presented by
8:30 - 8:50
AM
Construction noise at night, best practices & human reaction (22 & 23)

David George
City of Seattle, Dept of Planning & Development

Laura Escude WSDOT

8:50 - 9:15
AM
FHWA Roadway Construction Noise Model (RCNM) (24)

Judy Rochat with Soren Pedersen & Harvey Knauer

USDOT / Volpe Center

9:15 - 9:35
AM
Remote Construction Noise Monitoring (25) Areg Gharabegian Parsons
9:35 - 9:55
AM

Wildlife issues and noise, best practices & use of a noise shroud during impact pile driving near a bald eagle nest (26)

Readme (26)

Appendix 1 Sept 2004 Oly NF Harrassment (26)

Emily Teachout
US Fish & Wildlife Service
 
Presentation -
Underwater Noise
Time
Title Presented by
10:30 - 11:10
AM

Endangered species and underwater noise issues (27)

An Endangered Species effects analysis of pile driving on bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus), marbled murrelet, etc.

Sasha Visconty
Anchor Environmental

Brian Missildine
US Fish & Wildlife Service

Emily Teachout
US Fish & Wildlife Service

11:10 - 11:30
AM
Washington State Ferries' experience with bubble curtains: purpose, hardware, and use (28) Frank Petrie
KPFF
11:30 - 12:00
AM
Underwater Noise Impacts to Fish from Pile Driving: Current information on underwater noise metrics and research will be presented focusing on results from the Friday Harbor Ferry Terminal project. (29) Jim Laughlin
WSDOT