The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA) selected an RSG-authored paper as the āTechnical Area Pickā in the noise category. The paper, titled āWind turbine audibility and noise annoyance in a national U.S. survey: Individual perception and influencing factorsā was co-authored by RSGās Ryan Haac, Ken Kaliski, and Matthew Landis. It was part of a multi-disciplinary research effort to evaluate the factors that affect outdoor audibility and noise annoyance of wind turbines.
Interestingly, they found that wind turbine sound level was the most robust predictor of audibility yet only a weak, albeit significant, predictor of noise annoyance. Consistent with international findings, they found that communities in the US are less tolerant of wind turbine noise than other common environmental noise sources.
JASAās Technical Area Pick honors the best paper published in each category from the last year. As a selected article, access is free through the end of May. Read it in full at https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/1.5121309.
RSG CEO Stephen Lawe is presenting at theĀ Joint Florida Model Task Force & Transportation Data and Analytics Workshop today. The workshop brings togetherĀ transportationĀ modeling professionals from across the state toĀ discussĀ statewide modeling standardsĀ andĀ model enhancements.Ā Stephenās presentation,Ā titled āBehavioral Data: State of the Practice,ā will cover his perspective on the historical and future evolution of travel behavioral dataĀ and its implications.Ā Ā
RSGās Erica Wygonik recently led a presentation to the Miami-Dade Freight Transportation Advisory Committee (FTAC). She shared takeaways from work that RSG has done onĀ how drone delivery can reduce carbonĀ emissions.
MaybeĀ in a few yearsĀ your Valentineās Day flowersĀ will beĀ delivered by dronesā¦
http://www.miamidadetpo.org/freight-transportation-advisory-committee.as
On Monday, the Transportation Research Board (TRB)ās Transportation-Related Noise and VibrationĀ Committee honored a paper co-authored by RSG Sr. Director Ken Kaliski and AECOMās Roger Wayson with the Harter Rupert Award. The paper, titled āAcoustic Modeling of Meteorological Effects on Roadway Noise,ā shares how to account for meteorological impacts when modeling road traffic noise levels. The award honorsĀ TRBāsĀ best paper on transportation noise.
We are pleased to welcome Jay Evans as Vice President of Operations at RSG.Ā JayĀ brings over 25Ā years of experience in consulting and successfully building teams and delivering results across distributed, highly matrixed organizations.Ā His addition to RSG will enhance theĀ delivery of projects through supportive business operations andĀ investments in RSG staff. For more information on Jay, check out his profile atĀ https://rsginc.com/team/jay-evans/.