Contribution
Auralization of Vehicle Pass-By Using Impulse Responses of Dynamic Urban Environments
* Presenting author
Abstract:
Auralization of traffic noise in urban environments can provide residents and planners insights into their current or proposed city design. Variety and complexity of outdoor acoustic measurements and simulations pose many challenges. In previous work by the authors of this contribution, real urban scenarios on a test track were recreated in the controlled environment of a hemi-anechoic chamber in order to analyze the sound propagation. This approach has the advantage of reducing noise interference compared to track measurements. The present contribution investigates the use of discrete impulse responses measured along a scaled-down track inside a hemi-anechoic chamber to auralize a vehicle pass-by and to compare this auralization to recordings of a real vehicle pass-by on the outdoor track.