Comprehensive Review on Evaluation and Analysis of Traffic Noise in Amravati City

Noise pollution is unwanted or harmful sound that intrudes upon human or faunal activity. Noise pollution is almost entirely human generated, whether by machine sources or amplified sound of human creation. In developing country like India with the vehicle population increasing at an alarming rate, the residents of cities are experiencing severe environmental problems that results from road traffic in population from Automobiles. Noise from road traffic is major source of environmental pollution and it has detrimental effects on human beings. In this project road traffic noise survey was conducted at different locations in Amravati City. Various parameters are evaluated e.g. Noise Pollution Level, Traffic Noise Index and Equivalent Sound Level. Based on this study broad conclusions are presented and suggestion made to reduce noise due to traffic.