Road noise exposure distribution of an average-sized European city

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Scope

What is the shape of the exposure distribution for road noise in an average-sized European city?

Motivation: Most administrative noise mappings carried out in EU ignore exposures below 55 dB LDEN and 50 dB Lnight. However, annoyance and sleep disturbance is already elicited at levels down to ~45 dB LDEN and down to 40 dB Lnight. Thus, for the purpose of health impact assessment, knowledge is needed on the shape of the entire exposure distribution, including the low-exposure regime.

However, the definition of "average-sized" (city) is somewhat ambiguous. Further, the diversity of cities results in a large variation in their exposure distributions, augmented by the plurality of noise mapping methods and noise metrics. Therefore, for the purpose of this variable, example distributions from a few "representative" cities from different parts of Europe should be compiled, to provide a first overview of the diversity in distributions accross cities.

Definition

Data

TBA, exposure distributions of:

  • FI / Helsinki (Urbis-modelled)
  • NL / Amsterdam (Urbis-modelled)
  • S / Burlöv
  • 4 sample cities analyzed in the Milieu-TNO-RPA report
  • WHO 2008 Boesch et al. Economic valuation of transport-related health effects.pdf, Table 13

Dependencies

  • identity of the particular city
  • coverage, accuracy, and newness of input data used for noise mapping
  • methodology (emission-propagation models, model parameters, software implementation) used for noise mapping

Unit

% of the population vs category of the noise metric (various)

Formula

None.

Result

If possible, a numerical expression or distribution.

See also

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Road noise exposure distribution of an average-sized European city. Opasnet . [1]. Accessed 25 Apr 2024.
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