Urban sound planning, local air quality and quality of life
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Urban sound planning, local air quality and quality of life
Competences:
Urban sound mapping using in-house developed state-of-the-art calculation techniques.
Fast and accurate sound mapping at shielded urban locations.
Extended knowledge regarding the quiet side concept based on sound propagation modelling between urban canyons and perception of environmental noise.
Designing urban streets to reduce noise exposure at pedestrians and along facades.
Modelling local air quality by exploiting the link between noise levels and air pollutant concentrations near road traffic.
Quality of life studies related to urban road traffic based on noise mapping and surveys.
Detailed modelling of the acoustic effect of building envelope greening measures.
Intelligent, distributed environmental noise monitoring in cities.
Soundscape assessment based on sensor networks including automated source identification and anomaly detection (acoustic data mining).
Key Publications:
The potential of building envelope greening to achieve quietness (Timothy Van Renterghem, Maarten Hornikx, Jens Forssén and Dick Botteldooren, (2013) BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENT. 61. p.34-44)
Correlation analysis of noise and ultrafine particle counts in a street canyon (Arnaud Can, Michaël Rademaker, Timothy Van Renterghem, Vinit Mishra, Martine Van Poppel, Abdellah Touhafi, Jan Theunis, Bernard De Baets and Dick Botteldooren, (2011) SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT. 409(3). p.564-572)
Parameter study of sound propagation between city canyons with coupled FDTD-PE model (Timothy Van Renterghem, Dick Botteldooren and E SALOMONS, (2005) Proceedings of Forum Acusticum 2005. p.1153-1156)
