Standards, regulations and guidance notes

• ISO 9613-2, Acoustics — Attenuation of sound during propagation outdoors — Part 2: General method of calculation
• BS 4142, Method for rating industrial noise affecting mixed residential and industrial areas
• BS 5228-2, Noise and vibration control on construction and open sites — Part 2: Guide to noise and vibration control legislation for construction and demolition including road construction and maintenance
• BS 7445, Description and measurement of environmental noise
• IPPC H3 Horizontal Noise Guidance. Part 1 ‘Regulation and Permitting’ and Part 2 'Noise Assessment and Control'
• Calculation of Road Traffic Noise 1988, Department of Transport, Welsh Office
• Calculation of Railway Noise 1995. Department of Transport
• The CAA Aircraft Noise Contour Model: ANCON Version 1. DORA Report 9120, Civil Aviation Authority 1992
• PPG 24 Planning Policy Guidance: Planning and Noise. Department of the Environment 1994. TAN11 (Wales); PAN56 (Scotland)
• BS 9142: 2006 Assessment methods for environmental noise — Guide, 2003/01534 12 July 2006

Other relevant texts:

• Heimann D., de Franceschi M., Emeis S., Lercher P., Seibert P. (Eds.), 2007: Air Pollution, Traffic Noise and Related Health Effects in the Alpine Space − A Guide for Authorities and Consulters. ALPNAP comprehensive report. Università degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, Trento, Italy, 335 pp.
• K Attenborough et al, Benchmark cases for outdoor sound propagation, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 173-191, 1995
• K Attenborough, K, Ming Li & K. Horoshenkov, Predicting Outdoor Sound, Taylor & Francis, London, 2006
• E M Salomons, Computational Atmospheric Acoustics, Kluwer, The Netherlands, 2001
• D G Albert, Observation of acoustic surface waves propagating above a snow cover, Proc. Fifth Symposium on Long Range Sound Propagation, 10-16, 1992
• A Beginner's Guide to Uncertainty in Measurement. GPG(011), Bell S. National Physical Laboratory, August 1999
• Review and analysis of published research into the adverse effects of industrial noise, in support of the revision of planning guidance. FINAL REPORT MARCH 2004, DEFRA Ref. NANR 5 Bernard F Berry, Berry Environmental Ltd in association with Nicole Porter Independent Consultant
• Imagine – Improved Method for the Assessment of Generic Impact of Noise in the Environment. State of art review, Deliverable 2 of the Imagine Project, Document identity: IMA10TR-040423-AEATNL32, 14 October 2004
• HARMONOISE, FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT Final public version. Document identity: (HAR7TR041213AEAT04public.doc), 1 March 2005
• HARMONOISE Reference Model Task 2.4, Choice of basic sound propagation models. Deliverable 14 of the Harmonoise project, HAR24-TR021018-TNO10.doc. 12 December 2002
• HARMONOISE Reference Model, Description of the Reference model Deliverable 16 of the Harmonoise project, HAR29TR-041118-TNO10.doc, 22 December 2004
• HARMONOISE Technical Report - Deliverable 18, Harmonoise WP 3 Engineering method for road traffic and railway noise after validation and fine-tuning, HAR32TR-040922-DGMR20, 20 January 2005
• HARMONOISE, Validation of the Harmonoise models, Deliverable 21, HAR28TR-041109-TNO11.doc, 24 February 2005
• European Commission Working Group Assessment of Exposure to Noise (WG-AEN), Position Paper, Good Practice Guide for Strategic Noise Mapping and the Production of Associated Data on Noise Exposure, Version 1, 5 December 2003
• FINAL REPORT ON DEFRA RESEARCH PROJECT NOISE MAPPING INDUSTRIAL SOURCES TECHNICAL REPORT NO: AT 5414/2 REV 1, S J STEPHENSON, B C POSTLETHWAITE, 13TH OCTOBER 2003
• NordTest Method NT Acou 107 Approved 2001-05. Acoustics: A Framework for the Verification of Environmental Noise Calculation Software
• ADAPTATION AND REVISION OF INTERIM COMPUTATION METHODS AND QA OF NOISE MAPPING FOR THE PURPOSE OF EU STRATEGIC NOISE MAPPING, E Wetzel Wölfel, Eupen(B), Institute of Acoustics Conference Paper
• WG-AEN’s Good Practice Guide and the Implications for Accuracy, Research Project NANR 93: Final Report: The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), Document Code: HAL 3188.3/10/2 DGMR V.2004.1300.00.R014.1, May 2005
• Attenuation of Environmental Noise: Comparing the Predictions of ISO 9613-2 and theoretical models. Gilles A. Daigle and Michael R. Stinson, Internoise 2005
• How to Evaluate the Quality of Noise Prediction Software. Wolfgang Probst, Internoise 2005
• Estimating long-term representative SPL in complex environments using a coupling method based on acoustic (MW-WAPE) and micrometeorological (SUBMESO) numerical predictions. Benoit GAUVREAU, Bertrand LIHOREAU, Michel BERENGIER, Philippe BLANC-BENON, Isabelle CALMET, Internoise 2005
• Qualitative and quantitative study on relative influence of physical parameters affecting long-range sound propagation. Fabrice JUNKER, Benoit GAUVREAU, Michel BERENGIER, Philippe BLANC-BENON, Cora CREMEZI-CHARLET, Internoise 2005
• UNCERTAINTY IN NOISE MAPPING OF INDUSTRIAL SOUND SOURCES. Igor ROZMAN 1, Aleš GLOBEVNIK 2 and Lilijana KUHELJ3, Internoise 2006
• AIRCRAFT NOISE MODEL VALIDATION – HOW ACCURATE DO WE NEED TO BE? Jopson. I, Rhodes. D. Dr, Havelock. P, UK Civil Aviation Authority
• VARIATION OF ISO 9613, CONCAWE AND THE JOINT NORDIC METHODS OF PROPAGATION CALCULATION, Richards. J M.W.Kellogg Limited, Newman. M, Campus Marine A.S, Institute of Acoustics Conference Paper, Vol. 25. Pt 3. 2003
• Report to the National Measurement System Policy Unit, Department of Trade and Industry From the Software Support for Metrology Programme, Testing Algorithms in Standards and METROS By R M Barker, M G Cox, P M Harris and I M Smith, March 2003
• The Uncertainty of Sound Pressure Levels calculated with Noise Prediction Programs, Wolfgang Probst, Ulrich Donner, ACCON GmbH