Two laboratory methods of assessing annoyance due to railway noise and vibration

Philéas Maigrot (1) , Catherine Marquis-Favre (1) , Etienne Parizet (2)

1 LGCB - Laboratoire Génie Civil et Bâtiment
2 LVA - Laboratoire Vibrations Acoustique

In laboratory experiments, total annoyance due to combined noise and vibration, and partial annoyances due to each source in the presence of the other, can be assessed in two ways: during separate sessions dedicated to the evaluation of each kind of annoyance, and during the same session. This paper examines the difference between annoyance responses provided by the two methods. No differences were found between partial (respectively total) annoyance responses measured during separate sessions and those measured during the same session. The latter procedure allows reducing the number of stimuli to which the participants are subjected.

Domaines: Acoustique [physics.class-ph]

Philéas Maigrot, Catherine Marquis-Favre, Etienne Parizet. Two laboratory methods of assessing annoyance due to railway noise and vibration. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2017, 142 (5), pp.3284. ⟨10.1121/1.5012739⟩. ⟨hal-01711226⟩