Agenda: 77th Annual Meeting, 1998


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Transportation Research Board (TRB)
Committee on Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration (A1F04)
77th Annual Meeting
January, 1998
Washington, D.C.

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Committee A1F04-Related Sessions for 1998 Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
(All Meeting Rooms Located at the Washington Hilton Hotel)

Session		January 12, 1998		January 13, 1998
FIRST MORNING SESSIONS		9:00 am Highway Noise Subcommittee State Room		8:00 am to 9:30 am Guided Transit Noise Subcommittee Georgetown West Room
SECOND MORNING SESSIONS				9:45 am to 12:30 pm A1F04 Committee Georgetown West Room
FIRST AFTERNOON SESSIONS		2:00 pm Aircraft Noise Subcommittee Hamilton Room		1:30 pm to 3:15 pm Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 1 (Session 231) Kenneth D. Polcak Maryland State Highway Administration presiding Lincoln West Room
SECOND AFTERNOON SESSIONS				3:45 pm to 5:30 pm Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 2 (Session 260) Jay Waldschmidt Wisconsin Department of Transportation presiding Lincoln West Room
EVENING SESSIONS				7:30 pm to 9:30 pm Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 3 (Session 290) Cynthia S. Y. Lee U.S. Department of Transportation Volpe Center presiding Lincoln West Room

Highway Noise Subcommittee
Agenda

1. Call to Order
   
   
2. Welcome and Introductions of Members and Guests
   
   
3. Reports:
   
   1. Remaining TRB Week Activities
   2. Summer Meeting 1997 - Toronto, Canada
   3. NCHRP Synthesis on Tire / Pavement Noise
   4. Status of TNM
   5. Others
      
   6. Announcements:
      
      1. A1F04 Awards Dinner
      2. A1F04 Summer Meeting 1998 - St. Petersburg, Florida
         
      3. Presentations
         
         

         Development of the Federal Highway Administration TNM (Traffic Noise Model) Look-up Tables	Cynthia S.Y. Lee, Volpe Center Acoustics Facility
         An International Cooperative Research Program on Development of Porous Elastic Road Surfaces	Dr. Seishi Meiarashi, Senior Researcher, Ministry of Construction, Japan

      4. Open Discussion on Topics of Mutual Interest
         
         
      5. Adjournment
      
      

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      Aircraft Noise Subcommittee
      Agenda
      
      
      1. Call to Order
         
         
      2. Welcome and Introduction of Members and Guests
         
         
      3. Review of 1997 Activities
         
         
      4. Presentations:
         

         An Update on the Status of the Validation of Aircraft Noise Models at Lower Levels of Exposure	Eric Stusnick, Wyle Laboratories
         Rotorcraft Noise Model	Michael J. Lucas, Wyle Laboratories

         
         
      5. Discussion
         
         
      6. Announcements
         
      
      
      

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      Guided Transit Noise Subcommittee
      Agenda
      
      
      1. Introductions
         
         
      2. Administration
         
         
      3. Announcements
         
         
      4. Research:
         
         1. Funding Outlook
         2. Current Research
         3. New Research Statements
         4. Action Items
         
         
      5. Papers for 1998 Annual Meeting
         
         
      6. Presentation / Discussion
         
         
      7. Closing Remarks
         
         
      
      
      

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      Committee A1F04
      Agenda
      
      
      1. Call to Order
         
         
      2. Welcome and Introduction of Members and Guests
         
         
      3. Statements by Jon Williams, TRB Staff Liaison; and Wayne Kober, Section Chairman
         
         
      4. Review of Minutes from January 14, 1997 Meeting - Win Lindeman
         
         
      5. Reports:
         

         Summer 1997 Meeting	Soren Pederson
         1997 / 1998 Activities & Sessions	Gregg Fleming
         Aircraft Noise Update	Eric Stusnick
         Guided Transit Noise Update	Jim Nelson
         Highway Noise Update	Ken Polcak

         
         
      6. Presentations:
         

         Introduction to the FHWA TNM Training CDROM	Dr. William Bowlby, Bowlby & Associates
         Evaluation of Low-Cost Highway Noise Barriers	Mr. James Byers, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
         [n/a]	Mr. James Cowan, Acentech, Inc.

         
         
      7. Discussion:
         

         A1F04 Summer Meeting (1998)	Win Lindeman
         Others (Wall Journal)

         
         
      8. Announcements:
         

         A1F04 Awards Dinner	Steve Ronning
         Others

         
         
      9. Adjournment
      
      

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      Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 1 (Session 231)
      Kenneth D. Polcak, Maryland State Highway Administration, presiding
      
      

      Aircraft Community Noise Impact Model	Eric Stusnick and Richard L. Thompson, Wyle Laboratories, Inc.; Terence R. Thompson, Bryan A. Evans, and John DiFelici, Metron, Inc.
      Measurement of Road Traffic Noise and Perceptions of Residents in Kuwait	Parvitz A. Koushki, Omas Al-Saleh, and Salch Yaseen Ali, Kuwait University
      Comparative Field Measurements of Tire Pavement Noise of Selected Texas Pavements	B.J. Landsberger, Michael T. McNearney, Tracy Turen, and Albert Pandelides, University of Texas, Austin
      SLIT: An Improved Noise-Prediction Model for Parallel Noise Barrier	Seishi Meiarashi, Public Works Research Institute; Howard Jongedyk, Robert Armstrong, and Steve Ronning, FHWA; Masaki Hasebe, Hokkaido University

      
      

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      Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 2 (Session 260)
      Jay Waldschmidt, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, presiding
      
      

      Investigation of the Relationship Between the Traffic Condition and the Worst-Case Noise Hour on the Freeway	Alex C. Chen, URS Greiner, Inc.
      Tire-Pavement Noise: An Investigation of ITS Importance in Mitigating Highway Noise Impacts	Philip J. Grealy, John Collins Engineers, P.C.; William R. McShane, Polytechnic University
      Method to Determine Reasonableness and Feasibility of Noise Abatement at Special Use Locations	Roger L. Wayson and John MacDonald, University of Central Florida; Win Lindeman, Florida Department of Transportation
      Sound Barrier Applications of Recycled Plastics	Mohamad A. Saadeghvaziri and Keith MacBain, New Jersey Institute of Technology
      NDADS: A System Employing User-Enhanced Automation Procedures with Radar Tracking Data for Noise Prediction Models	Juliet A. Page, Wyle Laboratories

      
      

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      Transportation-Related Noise Issues, Part 3 (Session 290)
      Cynthia S.Y. Lee, Volpe Center Acoustics Facility, presiding
      
      

      State of the Art on the Prevision and Control of the Road Traffic Noise in France	Michael C. Berengier and Fabienne Anfosso-Ledee, Labortoire Central des Ponts et Chaussees, France
      A Case Study in Public Perception of Noise Barrier Effectiveness	Kenneth D. Polcak, Maryland State Highway Administration; Andrew B. Smith, McCormick Taylor & Associates, Inc.
      Traffic Noise Barrier Overlap Gap Model	Lloyd Herman, Ohio University
      Texturing of Cement Concrete Pavements to Reduce Traffic Noise Emission	Ulf S. Sandberg, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute; Jerzy Ejsmont, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland

      
      

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