CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A new study shows something many homeowners already feel — traffic noise can hurt home values. Researchers looked at what happens when cities build sound barriers along busy highways ...

In a bid to combat escalating traffic noise pollution, a novel study presents a semianalytical meshless method to optimize the acoustic performance of sound barriers. The research focuses on enhancing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Construction continues on a portion of sound barrier wall between Interstate 71 and Crescent Avenue in Covington. What kind of ...

Silence really is golden — and homeowners are willing to pay more for it. Specifically, when traffic noise fades, home values tend to creep up. A new academic study by the National Bureau of Academic ...

How much more money are homeowners willing to pay for a house with less traffic noise? According to a recent study, a lot.

The high bar GDOT sets for new sound barriers — and the devices one resident built to bolster the case for them near his ...

One and one-half million dollars a mile. The cost of building a new lane on I-95? Hardly! That’s more like $20 million. No, “$1.5 million dollars a mile” would be the cost of building new sound ...

More noise barriers could be built along sections of Interstate 894 in Greenfield under a Wisconsin Department of Transportation project aimed at reducing traffic noise for nearby residents. The ...

How much more money are homeowners willing to pay for a house with less traffic noise? According to a recent study, a lot. Researchers analyzed home prices for nearly 600,000 properties in Florida ...