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To do this, two different approaches are possible: a direct measurement campaign or a simulation approach. The so-called Road Traffic Noise Models (RTNMs) are used for this second scope. In recent years, noise assessment has also been experimented with through Machine Learning (ML) techniques: ML is very interesting mainly because it is usable in unusual road traffic conditions, like in the presence of roundabouts and\/or stops and traffic lights, or more generally when the free flow aspect is not verified, and the classic RTNMs fail. In this contribution, a large and comprehensive study on four different ML regressors is presented. After careful hyperparameter tuning, regressors have been calibrated by using two different approaches: a classic train\/test split on real road traffic data, and by using a computed dataset. 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