{"id":114,"date":"2010-02-12T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2010-02-12T17:39:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T22:39:33","slug":"noise-reducing-city-canyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/archives\/114","title":{"rendered":"Noise-reducing city canyons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a nearly two-year editorial process, we are happy to announce that <a title=\"&quot;Excess attenuation for sound propagation over an urban canyon&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.apacoust.2010.01.005\" target=\"_blank\">we&#8217;ve recently published a technical paper<\/a> in the peer-reviewed acoustics journal <a title=\"Applied Acoustics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/0003682X\" target=\"_blank\">Applied Acoustics<\/a>.\u00a0 Performed in cooperation with <a title=\"Division of Applied Acoustics at Chalmers University of Technology\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ta.chalmers.se\/\" target=\"_blank\">our acoustic colleagues<\/a> at <a title=\"Chalmers University of Technology (Chalmers tekniska h\u00f6gskola)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chalmers.se\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Chalmers University of Technology<\/a> in Sweden, the research explores what happens to noise as it travels over the city canyons formed by streets and backyards between rows of buildings\u2014such as those common in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Although the details are rather technical, the bottom line is that these canyons reduce noise\u2014so the more street canyons between you and that noisy highway, and the wider these canyons are, the quieter the noise will become.<\/p>\n<p>This field of acoustics research helps to improve the acoustic models that acousticians and city planners use to predict noise.\u00a0 Implemented in software, these models can map out how traffic and new development will impact the soundscape of a property, a neighborhood, or even <a title=\"Noise map of Bristol, UK (calculated with CadnaA software)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.datakustik.com\/index.php?eID=tx_cms_showpic&amp;file=uploads%2Fpics%2Fbristol_02.gif&amp;width=1200&amp;height=600m&amp;bodyTag=%3Cbody%20style%3D%22margin%3A0%3B%20background%3A%23fff%3B%22%3E&amp;wrap=%3Ca%20href%3D%22javascript%3Aclose%28%29%3B%22%3E%20%7C%20%3C%2Fa%3E&amp;md5=f3d8dd54a4fa9d402f63d40c79d2835f\" target=\"_blank\">an entire city<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a nearly two-year editorial process, we are happy to announce that we&#8217;ve recently published a technical paper in the peer-reviewed acoustics journal Applied Acoustics.\u00a0 Performed in cooperation with our acoustic colleagues at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, the research explores what happens to noise as it travels over the city canyons formed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,3,5],"tags":[30,38],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-technical","tag-noise","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lallyacoustics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}