Publication: STUDY ON NOISE LEVEL DUE TO TRAFFIC VOLUME: A CASE STUDY AT SERDANG AREA
Date
2020-09
Authors
AINA SHAZWANA BINTI MOHD IZHAR
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Abstract
Serdang area is considered as a mix development area with complete facilities such as
roadways and connections, residential area, commercial area, and school. An
observation on study the area found that Serdang area are also a high-density area with
a substantially high population, triggers noise pollution and focusing on increasing of
traffic growth. The purpose of this study is to measure noise level and traffic volume
at Serdang area, to compare noise level with The Department of Environment
Malaysia (DOE), and to investigate the relationship between noise level and traffic
volume. The study was conducted in context of increasing population that leads to
development of cities, that may give rise to noise pollution if it is poor planned. The
study was carried out at two different places (LC 1 and LC 2) during weekdays in the
morning peak hours and evening peak hours. The data collected were noise level and
traffic volume. The level of noise is to be compare with the Department of
Environment Malaysia (DOE) on Guideline for Environmental Noise Control 3rd
edition 2019. The result shows that both LC 1 and LC 2 exceed the limit set by DOE.
Noise level at LC 1 is higher during morning peak due to morning school session
although high traffic volume during evening peak which was due to heavy vehicles
and motorcycle. Meanwhile, noise level is at LC 2 is higher during evening peak due
to noise that come from vehicles.
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INTERIM SEMESTER 2020/2021
Keywords
TRAFFIC NOISE , NOISE LEVEL , NOISE POLLUTION