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Noise Assessment of the Port Authority Transit Corporation Lindenwold Rail Transit Line . HE 18.5 '.A3 7 10. UMTA-MA- 06-0025-7 8 - 9 no I DOT - j NOISE ASSESSMENT OF THE PORT AUTHORITY TRANSIT I TSC- CORPORATION LINDENWOLD RAIL TRANSIT LINE UM7 a- j R. Spencer I 78-45 E. Hinterkeuser The Boeing Vertol Company P.0. Box 16858 Philadelphia, PA 19142 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION MAR 1 3 1979 LIBRARY < Of INTERIM REPORT DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE TO THE U.S. PUBLIC THROUGH THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL INFORMATION SERVICE, SPRINGFIELD, VIRGINIA 22161 Prepared for U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND DEPLOYMENT Office of Rail and Construction Technology Washington DC 20590 NOTICE This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Govern- ment assumes no liability for its contents or use thereof. NOTICE The United States Government does not endorse pro- ducts or manufacturers. Trade or manufacturers' names appear herein solely because they are con- sidered essential to the object of this report. Technical Report Documentation Page 1 . Report No. 2. Government Accession No. 2. Recipient's Catalog No. UMTA-MA- 06- 0025-70-9 •J. Title ond Subtitle 5. Report Date Noise Assessment of the Port Authority October 1978 Transit Corporation Lindenwold Rail 6. Performing Organization Code Transit Line 8. Performing Organization Report No. 7. Author's! DOT-TSC-UMTA- 78-45 R.H. Spencer, E.G. Hinterkeuser 9. Performing Orgonizotion Nome ond Address — ****&, 10. Work Unit No, (7RAIS) The Boeing Vertol Company } R9743/UM949 P.0. Box 16858 St; |l 1 . Contract or Gront No. Philadelphia, Pa. 19142 DOT-TSC-850 $1 3. Type of Report ond Period Covered 12. Sponsoring Agency Nome and Address i | f |v! ( \ Q ^ j Interim Report U.S. Department of Transportation October 1974-July 1975 Office of Technology Development and Deployment Office of Rail and Construction Technology Id. Sponsoring Agency Code 2100 Second Street S.W., Washington;- D.C.- 20590 UTD- 30 15. Supplementary Notes Under contract to: U.S. Department of Transportation, Research and Special Programs Administration, Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142. • 1 6. Abstract This report describes the noise climate on and near the Port Authority Transit Corporation (PATCO) Lindenwold High Speed Line. It is one of a series of coordinated assessments sponsored by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration and technically administered through the Transportation Systems Center of the U. ^Depart- ment of Transportation. The PATCO urban rail transC approximately 14.2 miles of two-way revenue track four miles are in subway), and 12 stations. Noise is given for specific measurements made in cars, ir and along the non-subway wayside at appropriate loc Based on these measurements, in-car average maximun sound levels, LA (Max), range from 72 to 84 dBA and to be in the 70 to 79 dBA interval for 95 percent route. Wayside La (Max) levels, at 15m (50 ft) frd track, range from 76 to 84 dBA and are in the 80 t4 interval for 84 percent of the above ground route tion La (Max) levels are somewhat more dispersed, a* 70 to 74 dBA interval for 42 percent of PATCO stations, and in' the 80 to 89 dBA interval for 58 percent of the stations. The rationale for choice of measurement sites and the methodology for arriving at the summary noise distributions from the data are discussed explicitly. Measurement and analysis instru- mentation and procedures are also described. 17, Key Words 18, Distribution Statement Noise, Rapid Transit, Transportation Noise, Measurement Methodology, In- DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE TO THE U.S. PUBLIC THROUGH THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL strumentation, Data Analysis, Comunity INFORMATION SERVICE, SPRINGFIELD, Noise, Station Platform Noise, Vehicle VIRGINIA 22161 Noise 19. Security Classif. (of this report) 20. Security Closslf. (of this poge) 21* No. of P ages 22. Price Unclassified Unclassified 194 (8-72) Form DOT F 1700.7 Reproduction of completed poge aulHorijied 1 " - • ' » . PREFACE This report has been prepared under the Urban Rail Noise Abatement Program being sponsored by the Urban Mass Transportation Administra- tion's (UMTA's) Office of Rail and Construction Technology. The Noise Abatement Program is being managed at the Transportation Systems Center for UMTA. The objectives of the Noise Abatement Program are to assess noise produced by urban rail transit opera- tions and to appraise methods and costs for reduction of such noise. This report is one in a series of six noise assessment reports covering noise due to transit operations on seven rail transit systems in five U.S. cities. Consistent results of the six assess- ments were achieved through use of standardized noise measurement and data reduction procedures developed at TSC and tested on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in Boston. The assessment report for the MBTA was published in 1974 (Reference 1) Physical differences among the transit systems, as well as differences in the technical orientations of the teams, and in funds available to the teams for measurement and analysis, led to some differences in report organization, technical depth and writing style. Therefore, to provide at least introductory con- sistency among the reports for the reader, the front material, including the introduction of each assessment report, has been edited at TSC. The organization and technical content of each report, however, are basically as originally written by the res- pective teams and are, together with the accuracy of the measure- ments, the responsibility of the authors. This report has been prepared by the Boeing Vertol Company under contract DOT-TSC-850. Authors of the report were R. H. Spencer and E. G. Hinterkeuser . Technical Monitors for the program were Dr. E. G. Apgar and Dr. Robert Lotz Liaison with the Port Authority Transit Corporation was provided by Mr. David L. Andrus. Dr. Leonard Kurzweil of the Transportation Systems Center directed the final technical editing of the report. fi in FACTORS CONVERSION METRIC IV TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE LIST OF FIGURES Vll LIST OF TABLES xii LIST OF DEFINITIONS xiii 1-1 1 . SUMMARY 2. INTRODUCTION 2-1 2.1 Program Scope 2.2 Reader's Guide to Report 3. GENERAL MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY 3.1 Community Noise Sampling Strategy Conditions at Measurement Site Microphone Positions Measurement Procedure Station Noise_, 3.2 Sampling Strategy Conditions at Measurement Site Microphone Positions Measurement Procedure 3.3 Vehicle Interior Noise Sampling Strategy Conditions at Measurement Site Microphone Positions Measurement Procedure 4. INSTRUMENTATION AND DATA ANALYSIS 4.1 Instrumentation Data Requirements Data Acquisition System Equipment Calibrations 4.2 Data Analysis Graphic Level Recorder Calibration Individual Event Analysis Grouped Data Analysis Statistical Analysis v TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONT'D) PAGE 5-1 5 . NOISE ASSESSMENT DATA 5.1 Description of Transit System 5-1 Routes and Service Engineering Features Roadbed Rail Vehicles Stations 5.2 Noise Assessment Data 5-7 5.2.1 Wayside Community 5-10 Aerial Track At-Grade Track Special Track 5.2.2 Station Platform 5-70 Aerial Stations At-Grade Stations Underground Stations 5.2.3 Vehicle Interior 5-120 Typical Commute Trips Train Attendant Round Trip 6. TRANSIT SYSTEM LINE SUMMARY 6-1 6.1 General 6-1 6.2 Community Noise 6-1 6.3 Station Noise 6-5 6.4 In-Car Noise 6-6 6.5 PATCO Noise Summary 6-6 7. REFERENCES 7-1 APPENICES A. A Statistical Analysis of SEPTA Broad Street-A-1 Subway Station Noise Data B. Report of Inventions B-l 3 LIST OF FIGURES FIGURE PAGE 4, 1 Typical Data Acquisition System 4-2 4.2 Block Diagram of Noise Measurement 4-3 Instrumentation - BART 4 . Data Analysis Equipment Schematic 4-6 4-8 4.4 Method of Determining LAmax and T s 4.5 Spectral Analysis Equipment 4-9 4.6 System Noise Level Averages Analysis Equipment 4-13 5.1 PATCO Lindenwold Rapid Transit System Schematic 5-2 5.2 PATCO Road Bed 5-3 5.3 System Track Diagram 5-6 5.4 Community Noise Survey Locations 5-11 5.5 Wayside Measurement Site, Benj . Franklin Bridge Portal 5-13 5.6 Community Statistical Distribution 5-15 Benj. Franklin Bridge (South Side) Day 12m 5.7 Community Statistical Distribution 5-16 Benj. Franklin Bridge (South Side) Rush 12m 5.8 Community Statistical Distribution 5-17 Benj. Franklin Bridge (South Side) Eve. 12m 5.9 Community Statistical Distribution 5-18 Benj. Franklin Bridge (South Side) Night 12m 5.10 Community Statistical Distribution 5-19 Benj. Franklin Bridge (South Side) Day 30m 5.11 Community Statistical Distribution 5-20 Benj. Franklin Bridge (South Side) Day 60m 5.12 Community Statistical Distribution 5-21 Benj. Franklin Bridge(South Side) Eve. 60m 5.13 Community Statistical Distribution 5-22 Benj. Franklin Bridge(South Side) Eve. 120m 5.14 Typical Noise Time History - Camden 5-23 Community 12m 5.15 Wayside Measurement Location - Collingswood 5-25 Elevated Embankment 5.16 Community Statistical Distribution 5-27 Ogden & Atlantic Ave , Day 15m 5.17 Community Statistical Distribution 5-28 Ogden & Atlantic Ave, Rush, 15m 5.18 Community Statistical Distribution 5-29 Ogden & Atlantic Ave, Eve. 15m 5.19 Community Statistical Distribution 5-30 Ogden & Atlantic Ave, Night, 15m 5.20 Community Statistical Distribution 5-31 Ogden & Atlantic Ave, Day, 30m 5.21 Community Statistical Distribution 5-32 Ogden & Atlantic Ave, Rush, 30m Vll . , LIST OF FIGURES (CONT'D) FIGURE PAGE 5.22 Community Statistical Distribution 5-33 Ogden & Atlantic Ave. Eve. 30m 5.23 Community Statistical Distribution 5-34 Ogden & Atlantic Ave. Day, 60m 5.24 Community Statistical Distribution 5-35 Ogden & Atlantic Ave. Rush, 60m 5.25 Community Statistical Distribution 5-36 Ogden & Atlantic Ave. Eve. 60m 5.26 Typical Time History - Ogden & Atlantic 5-37 Wayside 5.27 Wayside Measurement Location, Collingswood 5-39 Concrete Viaduct 5.28 Community Statistical Distribution - Dayton 5-41 & South Atlantic Aves, Day 15m 5.29 Community Statistical Distribution - Dayton 5-42 & South Atlantic Aves, Rush 15m 5.30 Community Statistical Distribution - Dayton 5-43 & South Atlantic Aves, Eve.
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