External Damage Cost of Noise Emitted from Motor Vehicles

Delucchi, Mark; Hsu, Shi-Ling

doi:10.21949/1501591

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External Damage Cost of Noise Emitted from Motor Vehicles

1998-10-01
By Delucchi, Mark ; Hsu, Shi-Ling
Series Journal of Transportation and Statistics

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Delucchi, Mark ; Hsu, Shi-Ling
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Journal of Transportation and Statistics
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https://doi.org/10.21949/1501591
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United States
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United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
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With a detailed model of the cost of motor vehicle noise in the United States in 1990, it is estimated that the external damage cost of this noise could range from as little as $100 million per year to as much as $40 billion per year, although it is believed that the cost is not likely to exceed $5 billion (1991$); the base estimate is $3 billion. The wide range is due primarily to uncertainty regarding the cost of noise per decibel above a threshold, the interest rate, the amount of noise attenuation due to ground cover and intervening structures, the threshold level below which damages are assumed to be zero, the density of housing alongside roads, average traffic speeds, and the cost of noise away from home.
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