Community response to road traffic noise: Social surveys in three cities in Hokkaido

Comparison of Community Response to Road Traffic Noise in Japan and Sweden—part Ii: Path Analysis

“…Osada et al applied this method to social surveys on community responses to aircraft noise around Narita Airport [4] and to road tra$c noise in Tokyo [5]. Osada et al [4] con"rmed that the main "ndings were consistent with those obtained by Taylor [2] and Izumi et al [3]. The present authors have used this analysis in their own studies on the annoyance interaction of noise and vibration [6], the e!ects of noise barriers on road tra$c noise annoyance [7], and comparisons of community responses to road tra$c and railway noises [8].…”

“…Deleting the insigni"cant paths above the 1% level, six revised path models were constructed for each housing type in the three cities. 3. RESULTS Figure 2 summarizes the e!ects of signi"cant variables on road tra$c noise annoyance in the revised models.…”

“…Taylor [2] applied the method to a noise annoyance study around Toronto Airport and proposed an exploratory model for aircraft noise annoyance in relation to several acoustical and non-acoustical factors. Izumi et al [3] made a path analysis with data from social surveys on community responses to road tra$c noise in Hokkaido, Japan, and showed the relation between noise exposure, hearing, and sleep disturbances on road tra$c noise annoyance. Osada et al applied this method to social surveys on community responses to aircraft noise around Narita Airport [4] and to road tra$c noise in Tokyo [5].…”

Perception of urban park soundscape

“…21,22 Path analysis has been widely applied in not only social psychology and sociology 23 but also a number of acoustic studies to investigate the relationships among noise level, human perception, personal characteristics, and noise annoyance. [24][25][26] A number of major assumptions were made in formulating the path model. First, acoustic comfort evaluation exerted an influence on an individual's acceptability of the environment.…”

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

“…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.…”