%0 Journal Article
%T A Health-Based Metric for Evaluating the Effectiveness of Noise Barrier Mitigation Associated With Transport Infrastructure Noise
%A Geoffrey P. Prendergast
%A Michael Staff
%J Archive of "Noise & Health".
%D 2017
%R 10.4103/nah.NAH_101_16
%X This study examines the use of the number of night-time sleep disturbances as a health-based metric to assess the cost effectiveness of rail noise mitigation strategies for situations, wherein high-intensity noises dominate such as freight train pass-bys and wheel squeal
%K Annoyance
%K cost effectiveness
%K health-based metric
%K mitigation strategies
%K rail noise
%K sleep disturbances
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437752/