Publications

Books

  1. E. Murphy, E.A. King, Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health and Policy, Elsevier, May 2014. ISBN 9780124115958

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. Murphy, E.A. King, An assessment of residential exposure to environmental noise at a shipping port, Environment International, 63:207-215, February 2014
  2. E.A. King, F. Pilla, J. Mahon, Assessing noise from wind farm developments in Ireland: a consideration of critical wind speeds and turbine choice, Energy Policy, 41:548-560, February 2012
  3. E.A. King, V.P. O’Malley, Lessons learnt from post EIS evaluations of national road schemes in Ireland, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 32(1):123-132, January 2012.
  4. E.A. King, E. Murphy, H.J. Rice, Evaluating the impact on noise levels of a ban on private cars in Dublin city centre, Ireland, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 16(7):532-539, October 2011
  5. E.A. King, E. Murphy, H.J. Rice, Implementation of the EU environmental noise directive: Lessons from the first phase of strategic noise mapping and action planning in Ireland, Journal of Environmental Management, 92(3):756-764, March 2011. (This paper was reported on in Science for Environment Policy, the newsletter of the European Commission’s environmental news service for policy makers, distributed to over 11,00 subscribers. Issue 230, February 2011)
  6. E. Murphy, E.A. King, Scenario analysis and noise action planning: Modelling the impact of mitigation measures on population exposure, Applied Acoustics, 72(8):487-494, July 2011 (This paper was reported on in Science for Environment Policy – Special Issue 29, November 2011)
  7. E. Murphy, E.A. King, Strategic environmental noise mapping: Methodological issues concerning the implementation of the EU Environmental Noise Directive and their policy implications, Environment International, 36(3):290-298, April 2010. (This paper was reported on in Science for Environment Policy – Special Issue 192, April 2010)
  8. E.A. King, H.J. Rice, The development of a practical framework for strategic noise mapping, Applied Acoustics, 70(8):1116-1127, August 2009
  9. E.A. King, E. Murphy, A. McNabola, Reducing pedestrian exposure to environmental pollutants: A combined noise exposure and air quality analysis approach, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 14(5):309-316, July 2009
  10. E. Murphy, E.A. King, H. J. Rice, Estimating human exposure to transport noise in central Dublin, Ireland, Environment International, 35(2)298-302, February 2009
  11. Vincent O’Malley, E. A. King, Larry Kenny, Chris Dilworth, Assessing methodologies for calculating road traffic noise levels in Ireland – Converting the CRTN indicators to the EU indicators, Lden and Lnight, Applied Acoustics, 70(2):284-296, February 2009

  Published Conference Proceedings

  1. A. Paul, D. Arena, E.A. King, R.D. Celmer, J.J. LoVerde, Contribution of floor treatment characteristics to background noise levels in health care facilities Part 1, Proceedings of the 168th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Indianapolis, October 2014
  2. E.A. King, G. Metcalfe, E. Quitzau, R.D. Celmer, Towards Strategic Noise Mapping of US Cities: A Noise Map for the City of Hartford, CT, Proceedings of Noise-Con 2014, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States.
  3. E.A. King, Strategic noise mapping in Ireland (Phase Two): Implementation of lessons learned from the first phase, Proceedings of Internoise 2012, New York, United States.
  4. E.A. King, S. Bergin, R. Storey, Investigating the acoustic characteristics of carbon nanotube buckypaper, Proceedings of Internoise 2012, New York, United States.
  5. F. Pilla, E.A. King, B. Broderick, R. Britter, Real-time measurement of inhabitants exposure to noise and air pollutants with a network of sensors, PURBA 2012, IBM Second Workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications, Newcastle, UK, June 18-22, 2012, 2012
  6. E. Murphy, E.A. King, Residential Exposure to port noise: a case study of Dublin, Ireland, Proceedings of Internoise 2012, New York, United States.
  7. Pilla, E.A. King, B. Broderick, R. Britter, Real-time measurement of inhabitants exposure to noise and air pollutants with a network of sensors, IBM Second workshop on Pervasive Urban Applications, Newcastle, UK, PURBA 2012.
  8. E.A. King, J. Parnell, V.P. O’Malley, The assessment and control of road traffic noise: A comparison between Irish and Australian policy, Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN) 2011, London, UK.
  9. E.A. King, E. Murphy, A critical review of current policy for the assessment of night-time noise in the EU, Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem (ICBEN) 2011, London, UK.
  10. G.Bennett, E.A. King, J. Curn, V. Cahill, H.J. Rice, Environmental noise mapping using measurements in transit, Proceedings of ISMA 2010, Leuven, Brussels.
  11. E.A. King, B. McManus, P. McDonald, H.J. Rice, Evaluating the impact on noise levels arising from a ban on private cars in Dublin city centre, Proceedings of Internoise 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.
  12. E.Murphy, E.A. King, Strategic noise mapping, population exposure estimates and ‘acoustical planning’ mitigation analysis in a European capital city, Proceedings of Internoise 2010, Lisbon, Portugal.
  13. E.A. King, H.J. Rice, V.P. O’Malley, Assessing the suitability of using the recommended interim method for road traffic noise mapping in Ireland, Proceedings of Euronoise 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  14. E.A. King, H.J. Rice, V.P. O’Malley, Measuring road traffic noise in Ireland: Evaluating the suitability of the CRTN shortened measurement procedure, Proceedings of Euronoise 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  15. E.A. King, J. Mahon, F. Pilla, H.J. Rice, Measuring noise in high wind speeds: Evaluating the performance of wind shields, Proceedings of Internoise 2009, Ottawa, Canada.
  16. E.A. King, H.J Rice, The development of an independent noise prediction model, Proceedings of the 19th International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid, Spain, 2007.
  17. E.A. King, H.J Rice, Relating short-term measurements to the Lden indicator, Proceedings of Internoise 2007, Istanbul, Turkey.
  18. E.A. King, H.J Rice, Refining noise maps for public dissemination, Proceedings of Euronoise 2006, Tampere, Finland.

Book Chapters                                                   

  1. ‘Mapping for sustainability: environmental noise and the city’ E. Murphy, E.A. King in Methods for Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences, ed. F. Fahy and H. Rau, London: Sage, February 2013.

Published Reports

  1. ‘Environment Transport Interface’, M. O’Mahony, H. Rice, B. Broderick, B. Caulfield, R. O’Donoghue, B. Ghosh, E. Murphy, E.A. King, R. Ganguly, K. Delaney, Synthesis Report prepared for Environmental Protection Agency, 2012.
  2. ‘Data Flow 4 Statistical Data – Supplementary Report Major Roads for: Environmental Noise Directive (2002/49/EC)’, E.A. King, T. Stafford, Environmental Protection Agency, 2007.

Popular Media & News Services

  1. ‘Study claims Dublin port noise above WHO guidelines’, article by F. McDonald, Irish Times, January 3rd, 2014
  2. ‘Loud music used to lure teen buyers’ article by S. Maguire, Sunday Times, July 1st, 2012.
  3. ‘Dublin city centre car ban has little impact on noise’ article by S. Maguire, Sunday Times, May 20th 2012
  4. ‘The sound of silence: preparing for the roar of electric vehicles’ E.A.. King, H.J. Rice, in Acoustics Bulletin, the Institute of Acoustics’ bi-monthly newsletter, Vol 36(6), November, 2011

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