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- Persson Waye, Kerstin, 1959, et al.
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Rail freight vibration impacts sleep and community response: An overview of CargoVibes
- 2014
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Ingår i: ICBEN 2014, the 11th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem. Nara, Japan, 2014 June 1 to June 5.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The European Union funded CargoVibes project involving 10 partners from 8 nations has aimed to examine ground-borne vibration affecting residents close to freight railway lines. This poster presents an overview of the work package investigating human response to vibration, with particular focus on physiological and psychological impact on sleep, community annoyance and the development of guidance in evaluating response. The effects of vibration on sleep were measured in a series of laboratory trials at the University of Gothenburg. Existing field studies of community response were supplemented with further field work in the Netherlands and Poland, and a meta-analysis conducted to determine dose-response relationships for railway vibration. Numerous outcomes of vibration exposure were found, with physiological markers such as greater heart rate response and cortical reactions during sleep, and annoyance and sleep disturbance increasing with higher vibration amplitudes. A guidance document considering current state of the art regarding vibration measurement and assessment was produced pertaining to human perception, evaluation methods, annoyance, sleep impacts, and non-exposure factors. The outcomes of this work represent a significant advance in the understanding of the human response to railway vibration and a step towards a much needed harmonisation of assessment methods. The findings presented in this poster highlight the importance of considering environmental vibration in the planning, construction, and maintenance of railways in residential environments.
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- Waddington, David, et al.
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Cargovibes: Human response to vibration due to freight rail trafiic
- 2015
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Ingår i: Proceedings of 22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration, 12 - 16 July, Florence, Italy 2015. - : Informa UK Limited. ; 3:4, s. 233-48
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to present an overview of the research concerning human response to vibration conducted in the EU FP7 CargoVibes project. The European Union funded pro-ject CargoVibes involved ten partners from eight nations and ran from April 2011 to April 2014. The project was concerned with railway-induced ground-borne vibration affecting res-idents close to freight lines, with one work package that investigated human response to vi-bration, including sleep disturbance, community annoyance, and the production of a best practice guide for evaluating response. Laboratory trials at the University of Gothenburg were used to measure the effects of vibration on sleep. Physiological and psychological im-pacts of vibration exposure were found. TNO led a meta-analysis (N = 4129) to determine exposure-response relationships for railway vibration, with existing data for community re-sponse supplemented with field studies in the Netherlands and Poland. The University of Salford led production of a guidance document that presents the state of the art regarding vi-bration measurement and assessment. Specific topics in the guide include human perception, evaluation methods, annoyance, sleep impacts, and non-exposure factors. The outcomes pre-sented in this paper represent a significant advance in the understanding of the human re-sponse to railway vibration and a step towards much needed harmonization of assessment methods.
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