TRB Straight to Recording For All: Supplemental Guidance on the Application of Federal Highway Administration's Traffic Noise Model

TRB recorded presentations in March 2016 on National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 791: Supplemental Guidance on the Application of FHWA’s Traffic Noise Model (TNM). The purpose of these presentations is to help improve noise modeling and assist users in implementing TNM. The videos are available on-demand at no cost.

Here are the slides from the presentations.

Recordings:

Introduction



Structure-Related Noise



Signalized Interchanges, Intersections, and Roundabouts



Area Sources



Median Barriers



Multi-Lane Highways



Building Rows



Topography, Ground and Tree Zones, and Atmospherics



Parallel Barriers



Tunnel Openings



Presenters:

• Harvey Knauer, Gannett Fleming, hknauer@GFNET.com
• William Bowlby, Bowlby & Associates, wbowlby@bowlbyassociates.com
• Douglas Barrett , Cross Spectrum Acoustics, dbarrett@csacoustics.com
• Ahmed El-Aassar, Gannett Fleming, aelaassar@GFNET.com
• Christopher Menge, HMMH, cmenge@hmmh.com
• Christopher Bajdek, HMMH, cbajdek@hmmh.com

Moderator: Adam Alexander, Gannett Fleming, aalexander@GFNET.com