Research Article

Effect of Road Traffic Noise Pollution on Human Work Efficiency in Government Offices, Private Organizations, and Commercial Business Centres in Agartala City Using Fuzzy Expert System: A Case Study

Table 1

Input variables and output variable with their fuzzy values.

System’s
variable
Linguistic
variables
Linguistic
values
Fuzzy
intervals

InputNoise levelL: low35–55 dB (A)
M: medium50–70 dB (A)
H: high65–85 dB (A)
VH: very high80–100 dB (A)
EH: extremely high95–115 dB (A)
Noise durationShort0–8 hour
Medium7–16 hour
Long14–24 hours

OutputAnnoyanceES: extremely small0–0.2
VS: very small0.15–0.35
S: small0.30–0.50
M: medium0.45–0.65
H: high0.60–0.80
VH: very high0.75–0.95
EH: extremely high0.9–1