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Annoyance due to single and combined sound exposure from railway and road traffic
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In this article, a socio-acoustic survey among 1953 persons aged 18-75 years was conducted in residential areas exposed to railway and road traffic noise with sound levels ranging from LAeq,24h 45-72 dB in a municipality east of Gothenburg, Sweden.Abstract:
Environmental noise is a growing and well recognized health problem. However, in many cases people are exposed not to a single noise source - for example, road, railway, or aircraft noise - but to a combination of noise exposures and there is only limited knowledge of the effects on health of exposure to combined noise sources. A socio-acoustic survey among 1953 persons aged 18-75 years was conducted in residential areas exposed to railway and road traffic noise with sound levels ranging from LAeq,24h 45-72 dB in a municipality east of Gothenburg, Sweden. The objectives were to assess various adverse health effects, including annoyance, and to elucidate the impact of exposure to single and combined noise sources. In areas exposed to both railway and road traffic, the proportion annoyed by the total traffic sound environment (total annoyance) was significantly higher than in areas with one dominant noise source rail or road traffic with the same total sound exposure (LAeq,24h,tot). This interaction effect ...read more
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Annoyance from transportation noise: Relationships with exposure metrics DNL and DENL and their confidence intervals
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Exposure-response relationships for transportation noise
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented synthesis curves for the relationship between DNL and percentage highly annoyed for three transportation noise sources, including aircraft, road traffic, and railway noise, based on all 21 datasets examined by Schultz and Fidell et al. and augmented with 34 datasets.
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Effects of road traffic noise and the benefit of access to quietness
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that access to quiet indoor and outdoor sections of one's dwelling supports health; it produces a lower degree and extent of annoyance and disturbed daytime relaxation, improves sleep and contributes to physiological and psychological well-being.
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Longitudinal surveys on effects of changes in road traffic noise-annoyance, activity disturbances, and psycho-social well-being.
TL;DR: The adverse effects of long-term exposure to a high volume of road traffic were studied in socio-acoustic surveys in 1997 and in 1999 after a substantial reduction in road traffic as mentioned in this paper.
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Relationship between exposure to multiple noise sources and noise annoyance
TL;DR: The annoyance equivalents model concerning noise annoyance from combined sources and the underlying assumptions are presented and it appears that independence will be violated substantially only due to the effect of the presence or absence of a quiet side of building which is not incorporated in the model.