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Forecasting noise levels by means of neural networks for assessing urban traffic policies

2005

Within the assessment of the sustainability of plans and actions concerning the built environment, the transportation sector plays an increasing role, due to its importance in the economic and social life of countries. As that, the analysis of the sustainability concerning the transportation sector is now often embodied into the so called Strategic Environmental Analyses (SEA), that should provide local administrators with easy criteria for ranking the environmental suitability of designing policies, and that would seem to encounter the needed features for a correct evaluation of the urban masterplan. The urban noise forecast is very useful for local administrations, which have presently to…