Geographic Information System Based Traffic Noise Measurement, Mapping, Modelling in a Historic Settlement Area Included in Cittaslow Network in Türkiye
Abstract
The objective of this study is to present an investigation into the use of MAPANDGIS and ArcGIS, a Geographic Information System (GIS) software, in estimating traffic noise levels at varying intervals in the district centre of Seferihisar, a 3000-year-old settlement. The measurement of traffic noise levels was conducted using a Type 1 noise measuring device. The range of noise levels was determined to be from 51.7 dBA to 82.4 dBA at 55 locations where noise measurements were conducted. The noise levels at 14 different measurement stations on the İzmir-Seferihisar highway were 72.7 dB(A) on average between 7:00 and 9:00 in the morning, 74.1 dB(A) on average between 12:00 and 14:00 in the afternoon, and 76.5 dB(A) on average between 19:00 and 21:00 in the evening. It has been demonstrated that noise maps prepared at varying intervals reveal that location in close proximity to thoroughfares and commercial buildings experience elevated noise levels due to increased traffic from vehicles and pedestrians. Practicable recommendations are presented from a technical, urban design, and behavioural perspective with a view to minimising the negative impact of traffic-related noise levels on human health. The study under discussion highlights the potential importance of the proposed MAPANDGIS software prediction model in noise mapping as a vital tool for estimating traffic noise levels and establishing noise reduction strategies in a pilot-scale residential area in Türkiye.
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| Primary Language | English |
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| Subjects | Mechanical Vibrations and Noise |
| Journal Section | Research Article |
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| Submission Date | February 21, 2026 |
| Acceptance Date | March 30, 2026 |
| Publication Date | April 5, 2026 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.30939/ijastech..1894422 |
| IZ | https://izlik.org/JA59AZ69SX |
| Published in Issue | Year 2026 Volume: 10 Issue: 1 |
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Authors must acknowledge the work of others appropriately. Relevant prior studies should be cited fairly and accurately. Citation manipulation, excessive self-citation, coercive citation, or citation of irrelevant sources solely to influence metrics is unethical.
3.7 Funding and Conflict of Interest Disclosure
Authors must clearly disclose all sources of funding, financial support, project sponsorship, and any relationships or interests that could influence, or appear to influence, the interpretation of the results. Examples include employment, consultancy, stock ownership, patents, paid expert testimony, grants, and institutional affiliations.
If no conflict of interest exists, authors should explicitly state that there is no conflict of interest.
3.8 Ethical Approval for Research Involving Humans or Animals
If the study involves human participants, human data, human samples, surveys, driver behavior experiments, ergonomic assessments, medical information, or any research requiring ethical oversight, the manuscript must include the name of the ethics committee/institutional review board, approval number, and approval date where applicable.
If the study involves animals, authors must confirm that all applicable institutional, national, and international guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed and that necessary approvals were obtained.
Where informed consent is required, authors must confirm that informed consent was obtained.
3.9 Use of Artificial Intelligence Tools
If generative AI or AI-assisted tools are used in the preparation of the manuscript, authors must disclose this use transparently and explain how the tools were used. AI tools cannot be listed as authors because they cannot take responsibility for the work. Authors remain fully responsible for the accuracy, originality, validity, and ethical integrity of all submitted content.
3.10 Copyright, Permissions, and Reuse
Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission for any copyrighted material reused in the manuscript, including figures, tables, photographs, or substantial text passages, where permission is required. Appropriate acknowledgments must be included in the manuscript.
3.11 Corrections After Publication
If authors discover a significant error or inaccuracy in their submitted, accepted, or published work, they must promptly notify the editorial office and cooperate fully in correcting or retracting the article where necessary.
4. Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers
4.1 Contribution to Editorial Decisions
Reviewers assist editors in making editorial decisions and help authors improve the quality of their manuscripts through constructive, scholarly, and objective feedback.
4.2 Competence and Timeliness
Reviewers should accept review assignments only if the manuscript falls within their area of expertise and they can complete the review within the requested time. If a reviewer feels unqualified or unavailable, the editor should be informed immediately.
4.3 Confidentiality
Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. Reviewers must not share, discuss, copy, use, or distribute the manuscript or its contents for personal, academic, or commercial advantage.
4.4 Objectivity and Professionalism
Reviews must be objective, respectful, evidence-based, and constructive. Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate. Reviewers should clearly explain their evaluations and support their recommendations with reasoned arguments.
4.5 Identification of Relevant Sources
Reviewers should identify important published work relevant to the manuscript that has not been cited by the authors. Reviewers should also alert the editor to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under review and any other work of which they are aware.
4.6 Conflict of Interest
Reviewers must decline to review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest arising from personal relationships, institutional connections, direct competition, collaboration, or financial interests.
5. Duties and Responsibilities of the Publisher
The publisher supports the editorial process but does not interfere with editorial decisions. The publisher is committed to safeguarding editorial independence, supporting ethical publishing practices, and ensuring that suspected misconduct is handled appropriately and transparently.
6. Complaints, Appeals, and Allegations of Misconduct
IJASTECH takes all complaints and allegations of misconduct seriously, whether they arise before or after publication. Complaints may relate to editorial decisions, peer review, plagiarism, data integrity, authorship, conflicts of interest, citation manipulation, ethical approval, or any other ethical concern.
Such cases will be evaluated by the editorial office and, where necessary, by the Editor-in-Chief and publisher in accordance with journal policies and recognized ethical guidance. Additional documents, explanations, or institutional clarification may be requested.
Authors may appeal editorial decisions when they believe a serious procedural or scientific misunderstanding has occurred. Appeals must be reasoned, evidence-based, and submitted in writing.
7. Actions in Cases of Ethical Violations
If misconduct or serious ethical violations are identified, IJASTECH reserves the right to take one or more of the following actions:
- reject the manuscript,
- return the manuscript for clarification,
- suspend editorial evaluation,
- inform the authors’ institution(s) or funding body,
- publish a correction,
- publish an expression of concern,
- retract the article,
- restrict future submissions from the responsible party for a defined period,
- or take any other measure deemed necessary to protect the integrity of the scholarly record.
8. Post-Publication Responsibility
Publication does not end ethical responsibility. Authors, reviewers, editors, and readers are encouraged to notify the journal if they identify significant errors, ethical concerns, or misconduct in published work. IJASTECH is committed to evaluating such notifications fairly and transparently.
9. Final Statement
All parties involved in the publication process of IJASTECH are expected to comply with this policy. Submission of a manuscript to the journal implies that the authors agree to these ethical standards and accept the journal’s procedures for editorial assessment, peer review, and the handling of potential misconduct.
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The Journal aim to publish extensive and reliable information on current developments, innovative technologies and discoveries about automotive science and technology. Papers will be freely accessible online without any subscriptions and restrictions to researchers worldwide. Original research papers, review papers, letter to the editor, case reports, short communications are welcome for publishing without any publishing or submission payment.
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M.M. Topaç is a senior researcher in automotive engineering at Dokuz Eylül University Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Main research topics:
• Vehicle engineering / Automotive systems,
• Vehicle design,
• Chassis systems engineering,
• Vehicle suspensions & steering,
• Ground vehicle dynamics,
• Failure analysis and prevention in vehicle design,
• Vehicle structures,
• Applied optimisation in vehicle engineering,
• Defence engineering,
• Electromobility.
Current research interests:
• Chassis systems design for special purpose vehicles: multi-axle land platforms, heavy-duty commercial vehicles, articulated vehicles / trailers, tracked vehicles,
• Alternative urban transportation: design of electric vehicles / urban electric microcars,
• Failure analysis and optimal design of vehicle components and structures,
• Dynamics of special purpose land vehicles,
• Modelling, design, optimisation and manufacturing of vehicle suspensions, axle systems and steering systems (including multi-axle steering systems for special purpose land vehicles and trailers),
• Design and optimisation of chassis and vehicle body structure,
• Powertrain modelling / Drivetrain dynamics.
Since 2006, he has been serving as a project consultant for automotive industry. He has been directing projects related to design and optimisation of suspensions, steering linkages, chassis, body and the other mechanical subsystems of wheeled vehicles. Moreover, he is investigating the effects of the design parameters of suspension and steering systems on handling behaviour and dynamics of wheeled and tracked land vehicles. He is also interested in topology optimisation-based lightweight design applications in vehicle engineering.
He is a member of SAE International.
Ir Prof Pak Kin Wong received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, in 1997. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering and Dean of Graduate School, University of Macau. He is also the Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and Chartered Fellow of Chartered Association of Building Engineers, U.K. His research interests include automotive engineering, artificial intelligence for medical applications, fluid transmission and control and mechanical vibration. He has published over 354 scientific papers. 238 out of 354 are refereed journal papers.
Dr. Yanan Camaraza-Medina is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Guanajuato, Mexico. He received his M.Sc. in thermal engineering from the Universidad de Matanzas “Camilo Cienfuegos” in 2011 and the M.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Universidad Central de Las Villas “Marta Abreu” in 2015. He received his Ph.D. (Doctor in Technical Sciences) from the Universidad Central de Las Villas “Marta Abreu” in 2019. His research interests include problems of the heat transfer and fluid mechanics, with a special focus on thermal radiation, convective heat transfer and numerical modeling of thermal processes. He is a member of Editorial Advisory Board of three Scopus Indexed Journals, Mathematical Modelling of Engineering Problems (IIETA), Journal Européen des Systèmes Automatisés (IIETA), Recent Patents on Engineering (Bentham Science). Dr. Camaraza-Medina is the author and coauthor of more than 60 papers and several books.
Dr. Ramazan Şener is an expert in thermofluids, CFD and ICEs. He earned his PhD at Marmara University focusing on engine performance improvement and emissions reduction using advanced simulation tools and experimental methods. He also had the opportunity to conduct his research at the University of Catania, Italy. He is currently an Associate Professor at Bandirma Onyedi Eylul University, where he teaches and conducts research in thermofluids, optimization, ICEs, and renewable energy systems.
Dr. Gang Li is an Assistant Professor at Michael W. Hall School of Mechanical Engineering at Mississippi State University. His research interests include the fields of renewable energy technologies, applied artificial intelligence, dynamics and vibration, control theory, condition monitoring algorithms, structural health monitoring, and life cycle assessment, and involve AI for engineering, numerical simulation, experimental validation, and industrial application. Dr. Li is a recipient of the NSF EPSCoR Research Fellow Award and DOE EnergyTech UP Faculty Explorer Award. Dr. Li's research has been funded by NSF, DOE, the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute's Energy Innovation Seed Grant, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation’s Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII) Grant, the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Research (MOWER) Challenge Grant Program, General Electric (GE), and Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE). Dr. Li is a member of ASME, IEEE, and SAE International.
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International Journal of Automotive Science and Technology (IJASTECH) is published by Society of Automotive Engineers Turkey
