Research Article

Theoretical Comparison of the Effects of Different Traffic Conditions on Urban Road Traffic Noise

Table 1

Specifications of traffic speed in different traffic conditions.

Traffic condition Fitted speed distributionMinimum speed (km/h)Maximum speed (km/h)Average speed (km/h)SD of speed (km/h)

Over-saturated congestionExponential distribution115.510.372.74
Under saturated flowNormal distribution255538.146.46
Free flowLog-normal distribution355547.185.5
CongestionGamma distribution102514.533.91
Accelerated flowBeta distribution14527.4113.15
Decelerated flowChi-square distribution13518.7611.82