Smart and sustainable logistics of Port cities: A framework for comprehending enabling factors, domains and goals

COVID-19 has affected people's lives in different ways from reduced mobility and staying-at-home orders to other daily life routines These changes have, in turn, affected the quality of life in urban environments including air quality and noise The noise aspect, for example, suggests quieter environments due to fewer vehicles on streets, and less human activities On the other hand, staying at home may cause more activities happening at the building level, i e , more people in buildings may make more noise for neighbors In order to understand this nexus, the study examines the noise complaints data in Dallas, USA To do this, the study first compares the noise complaints after the COVID-19 intercourse and the same data period in 2019 Findings surprisingly show reduced noise complaints during the COVID-19 time frame by about 14% compared to the pre-COVID-19 period The majority of this reduction occurred in and around the city center In other words, the noise complaints seem more spatially dispersed at the outskirts of the city Another finding that directs more detailed analyses, however, considers the massive reduction of ridership, traffic circulation, and building permits This needs some other techniques for determining the sources for incommensurate noise complaints © 2021 Walter de Gruyter GmbH All rights reserved

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Noise complaints during a pandemic: A longitudinal analysis

Environmental impacts of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Environmental and human health impacts of cruise tourism: A review.

Noise is a major environmental issue, which gave birth in the last decades to the development of many engineering methods dedicated to both its estimation and mitigation. The specificity of the noise pollution problem lies in the complexity of human hearing and subjective assessment, and in the high spatiotemporal variation and rich spectral content of the noise generated by a wide variety of sources in urban context. Indicators that encompass all these dimensions are required for the description of sound environments and for the evaluation of noise mitigation strategies. This paper compares usual and more specific indicators, dedicated to environmental noise analyses, by means of a literature review and through an analysis of a large database of physical and perceptive measurements collected in Paris, France. The comparison is based on the three following criteria: i) the ability of indicators to describe and physically categorize the urban sound environments, ii) the relevance of indicators for describing the perceptive appreciations of urban sound environments, iii) the ability of indicators to be estimated through classical or more advanced traffic noise estimation models. A discussion compares the pro and cons of the selected indicators in an operational scope.

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Klara Rupnik

Papers

Impact of COVID-19 on environmental noise emitted from the port.