PMID- 9821337
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19981214
LR  - 20190515
IS  - 0001-4966 (Print)
IS  - 0001-4966 (Linking)
VI  - 104
IP  - 5
DP  - 1998 Nov
TI  - A field survey on the annoyance caused by sounds from large firearms and road 
      traffic.
PG  - 2890-902
AB  - Subjective reactions to artillery sounds were determined for over 400 respondents 
      divided among 17 different residential areas. Also, for the same respondents, the 
      subjective effects of road-traffic sounds were determined enabling a 
      comprehensive comparison of the dose-response relations. For the sake of 
      comparison with other field surveys, the noise dose for the shooting sounds was, 
      among other things, expressed as the yearly average C-weighted day-night level 
      (CDNL) and that for the road-traffic sounds was expressed as the A-weighted 
      day-night level (ADNL). Similarly, for both sound types the community response 
      was expressed as the percentage of respondents being "highly annoyed." From the 
      comparison of the two dose-response relationships it could be concluded that for 
      numerically equal day-night levels, the artillery sounds were more annoying than 
      the road-traffic sounds. Overall, the difference was equivalent to the change in 
      annoyance produced by a 5-dB shift in the yearly average day-night levels of the 
      sounds. With equal day-night levels for "downwind" conditions, the artillery and 
      road-traffic sounds were equally annoying. Results from the present highly 
      controlled field survey provided a new opportunity to optimize the parameter 
      values in Schomer's rating procedure y = (1/beta)(LCE-PNSE) + PNSE, in which the 
      noise exposure for impulsive sounds (y) is expressed as the A-weighted SEL of 
      equally annoying vehicle sounds. PNSE represents the point at which the impulsive 
      and vehicle sounds with numerically equal levels are also equally annoying. With 
      PNSE fixed at 103 dB, an optimal solution was found with slope beta set to 1.3. 
      With the previously recommended slope beta = 0.67, the rating sound level for 
      artillery sounds would be underestimated by almost 12 dB.
FAU - Buchta, E
AU  - Buchta E
AD  - Institut fur Larmschutz, Dusseldorf, Germany.
FAU - Vos, J
AU  - Vos J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - J Acoust Soc Am
JT  - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
JID - 7503051
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - *Auditory Perception
MH  - *Automobile Driving
MH  - Female
MH  - *Firearms
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Noise/*adverse effects
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
EDAT- 1998/11/20 00:00
MHDA- 1998/11/20 00:01
CRDT- 1998/11/20 00:00
PHST- 1998/11/20 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1998/11/20 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1998/11/20 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1121/1.423911 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Acoust Soc Am. 1998 Nov;104(5):2890-902. doi: 10.1121/1.423911.