Annoyance response to mixed transportation noise in Hong Kong

Perception of urban park soundscape

“…[27][28][29] In addition, the ranges of coefficient values obtained for the path model are comparable with other openly reported path models focusing on acoustics, transportation and medicine. 22,30,31 Similar to the results obtained from the ordered logit model, both subjectively evaluated sound level (r ¼ À0.26, P< 0.001) and sound pressure level (r ¼ À0.17, P< 0.001) are found to be valid predictors for acoustic comfort evaluation even though the influence from the subjectively evaluated sound level is relatively stronger. The subjectively evaluated sound level and the sound pressure level decreases as acoustic comfort increases and vice versa.…”

Community responses to road traffic noise in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

“…The Hanoi survey was conducted from September 3 to 25,2005, and the Ho Chi Minh City survey was carried out from August 1 to September 18, 2007. Outlines of the social surveys in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are presented in Table 1.…”

“…Although road traffic noise has not yet been recognized as a major problem in developing countries [14], studies carried out in some of these countries show the potentially adverse effects of noise in communities where road traffic noise is very intensive (e.g., up to 90 dB of sound pressure level in Jeddah) [15,16]; it was also listed as a major environmental problem in Nigeria, with traffic noise bothering the people most [17,18]. In Asia, except for a handful of studies [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26], there is a rather limited knowledge from published surveys on road traffic noise status and its influences on the community, especially within developing countries. The present study was therefore deemed essential, and it was undertaken because a survey of this part of the world is critical to the implementation of more practical noise-assessment procedures among urban planners.…”

A methodology to study noise annoyance and to perform Action Plans follow up using as input an existing survey and noise map: Application to the city of Málaga (Spain)

“…. [6][7][8][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26] and is still under research. In this case, the ''dose'' data have been taken from Málaga's Noise Map (calculated using CADNA-A as described in Section 2.3).…”