Measurement techniques of noise level in various urban scenarios: day selection and representative period

Abstract

This work summarizes several years of measurements of the main noise sources present in large populations, specially the noise produced by the traffic in the city of Valencia. The study includes one-week monitoring in the period between the years 2012 and 2014 in three different types of scenarios (heavy, medium and low traffic). The aim of this work is firstly to determine the most representative measurement day under several approaches related to the type of day (working day, non-working day or full week), and to the different periods throughout the day (night, day and evening).

This permits to reach conclusions about the optimization of measurement techniques of the overall urban traffic noise, and will facilitate the measurement tasks in specific locations of the city of Valencia, characterized by specific traffic conditions.