Evaluation and Analysis of Traffic Noise Pollution at Charbagh Railway Station and Alambagh Bus Terminal in Lucknow city

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

The noise level has exceeded the prescribed limits in many Indian cities due to increased motorization, flyover construction and growth in the transport network. The health effects of high levels of noise are characterised as hypertension, sleeplessness, mental stress, etc. Because of this detrimental effect on the level of noise, the effects of traffic noise on residents and road users must be measured. The acceptability of traffic noise for people living along the arterial road is greater than that of the collector road at 57.5 dB and 56.2 dB for the daytime respectively. For arterial and collector roads, respectively, it is 2.5 dB and 1.2 dB above the prescribed day limit [55 dB]. The average level of acceptability of resident traffic noise at night is 46.0 dB, which is 1 dB higher than the 45 dB traffic noise maximum set by MoEF and WHO at night. This study is an attempt to measure and evaluate the emissions of traffic noise across the various locations of the city of Allahabad. In order to understand and analyse different aspects of the effect of traffic on the land use and social life of residents and road users, field measurements were performed. The present analysis presents the comparison between observed and predicted noise level at selected places and also describes the migratory measures to overcome such type of traffic noise pollution through design of noise barrier along the road and motivate people towards the use of public transport system

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