Study of Traffic Noise Pollution at Intersection of Major Roads for Akola City (M.S)
Journal Title: International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology (IJRASET) - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 12
Abstract
Noise is one of the environmental pollutants that are uncomforted in daily life. Noise pollution has become major concern for communities living within the city in fight of rapid growth and ill effects of noise pollution. Rapid organization and allowing growth of vehicles in Akola is causing serious environmental problems. It also effects on human health and environment. Hence, noise pollution due to vehicular traffic flow at five major road locations was studied. The noise level data were recorded with sound level meter (No. of interval) at the interval of 5 second for 10 minutes during peak hours at morning and evening and the graphs are plotted against time interval verses percentage of traffic volume and noise descriptors. The variation of noise levels due to traffic flow is studied and presented in graphical forms. Also percentage occurrence of various noise levels of various approaches in peak hours shown by bar chart. It is observed that two-wheeler is more as compare to other type of vehicles and maximum number of two-wheeler was 2424 per hour. Maximum noise pollution level and Leq was observed at Railway Station Square intersection as 104.20 dB(A) and 86.60 dB(A) respectively. It was found that the noise pollution at all the time violating the Indian norms of ambient noise standard. In this paper finally it concluded that noise pollution must be controlled in Akola city by enforcing the ambient noise standard strictly and by diverting traffic on the other roads as possible, also it needs to change the mindset, developed positive attitude and awareness to create noise free environment.
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Miss. Kavita K. Ghogare
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