PREDICTION OF TRAFFIC NOISE FROM TRUNK ROADS AND ACCESS ROADS IN URBAN AREAS

In order to protect residents in urban dwellings from unnecessary noise, land use planning should be combined with a traffic noise prediction method which includes the prediction of the effect of trunk roads to be constructed in urban areas and the effect of the access road network. In this study, we propose a new prediction method based on theory for an ideal homogeneous city. The results agreed with data from the Municipal Office of Sapporo.