Abstract

Noise pollution arises as a severe problem to the community and ground transportation has highly impacted noise environment of the neighbourhood. In the present study, six stations were selected from three different locations in order to assess the traffic noise impact among residential area along Jalan Kluang, Batu Pahat. The objectives of this study focused on two main stages: (1) determination of noise indices; and (2) assessment of traffic noise impact. The noise indices such as equivalent continuous noise level (LAeq), noise level exceeded 10% (L10), 90% (L90) and the maximum noise level (LAFmax) of peak hours measurement time were determined using sound level meter (SLM) at all six stations. Besides, traffic noise index (TNI) and noise pollution level (LNP) were calculated based on the measured noise indices to expose the traffic noise impact. Overall, the result of the present study showed that residential area faces traffic noise disturbance partially whereby 50% of the stations exceeded the DOE standard which was 55dBA. Nevertheless, the residents living nearby Jalan Kluang are commonly facing traffic noise nuisance, but stations located further inside residential areas tend to have more residential background noises apart from traffic influence.

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