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

Annoyance response to mixed transportation noise in Hong Kong

“…Resolution of this discrepancy has important policy implication as it has been argued that a less stringent noise criterion, known as the ''railway bonus", should be set for railway noise [16]. However, a number of Japanese studies showed that railway noise was no less annoying or even more so than road traffic noise [8,9,17], probably due to train-induced vibration [18], socio-cultural factors [19] and differences in train schedule and average distances of houses to the railway [4,11].…”

“…To complement simulated laboratory experiments and better explain the causal relationship between different factors and road traffic noise annoyance, structural equation modeling (SEM) has been used in some studies [4,19,[45][46][47]. Major factors that were proposed to have significant impact on noise annoyance as a result of application of SEM include noise level [45,47], personal noise sensitivity [4] and noise disturbance [4,19,[45][46][47].…”

“…Major factors that were proposed to have significant impact on noise annoyance as a result of application of SEM include noise level [45,47], personal noise sensitivity [4] and noise disturbance [4,19,[45][46][47].…”

Road traffic noise, annoyance and community health survey - A case study for an Indian city

“…A comprehensive literature was studied to develop the survey questionnaire. [20][21][22] The first part of the questionnaire was related to the personal information of the respondents such as age, sex, occupation, income, and the time period in their present house. The second part covered major sources of noise pollution at all the selected locations.…”

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.…”