Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL AND PLANNING RESEARCH, cilt.32, sa.4, ss.307-323, 2015 (SSCI)
Traffic-induced vibration is a serious urban problem and environmental disturbance that has long been tolerated. However, it has become a common source of public complaint. Although this annoyance is controllable through design and planning decisions, the level of traffic-induced, in-dwelling vibration has received little attention in the urban design and planning literature. This' study expands on past research on traffic-induced vibration by modeling the ground-borne, in-dwelling vibration levels in a historic town center using variables that can be controlled through urban design and planning decisions. The aim is to construct a simple model that can be used by designers and decision makers to control in-dwelling vibration levels. In-dwelling vertical vibration velocities induced by different types of vehicles were recorded at 10 different historic masonry houses in Birgi, Turkey. The results showed that the simple linear regression model explained a large portion of the variance in peak traffic-induced, ground-borne, indwelling vibration levels (R-2 = .867), This simple model can be used by practitioners in the fields of urban design and planning to generate alternative solutions to keep traffic-induced vibration at acceptable levels prior to the architectural design and construction stages.