When it comes to highway sound barriers, pre-cast concrete has remained the industry standard because of a lack of acceptable, cost-effective alternatives. However, the Pennsylvania Turnpike ...

American aerospace startup Boom made history on Tuesday by breaking the sound barrier during the test flight of its Boom Supersonic XB-1 demonstrator jet. The XB-1's flight, livestreamed from the ...

Building and maintaining our highways is expensive. But here’s a quiz question: on Interstates 95 and 84, what costs a half-million dollars a mile to construct? The answer: sound barriers. Why are we ...

What kind of view is worth $4.2 million to protect? One of the Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati skyline – the Great American Tower with its steel tiara and cylindrical Radisson Hotel Cincinnati ...

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 ...

On its 12th test flight, the Boom XB-1 prototype broke the sound barrier three times and achieved a top speed of Mach 1.1. On its 12th test flight, the Boom XB-1 prototype broke the sound barrier ...

Those tall walls along the side of the highway aren't there to prevent cars from crashing into your backyard. Here's what they're really meant to do.

The Connecticut General Assembly’s Transportation Committee has approved a bill that would require the state Department of Transportation to schedule for and fund construction of certain highway noise ...

PORTSMOUTH — Long-fought-for sound barriers to protect the city’s Pannaway Manor and Rockingham Avenue neighborhoods from loud Interstate 95 noise have finally been approved. Gov. Chris Sununu and the ...

What happens when the solution to a serious problem has a deadly result? Anyone driving on one of Israel’s many main highways ...