Do outdoor environmental noise and atmospheric NO2 levels spatially overlap in urban areas?

Tenailleau, Quentin; Bernard, Nadine; Pujol, Sophie; Parmentier, Anne-Laure; Boilleaut, Mathieu; Houot, Hélène; Joly, Daniel; Mauny, Frédéric

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2016.04.082

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“…Davies et al (2009) have found a positive correlation between noise and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) and nitrogen oxides (NO X ) concentrations emitted from motor vehicles in traffic (including intersections or crossroads). Tenailleau et al (2016) also found a significant and positive correlation between noise levels and NO 2 exposure estimates for building façades.…”

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confidence: 64%

“…In Madrid, Tobías et al (2015) found an association between diurnal noise levels (L eq D) exposure and mortality for both cardiovascular and respiratory diseases (causes) caused by both high noise levels and PM2.5 levels (air pollution) for population of age above 65 years old. In this line, three crossroads (1, 2, 5 in map (f) of Figure 4) showed high concentration of NO 2 exceeding European standard of 40 µgr/m 3 (annual averaged NO 2 in microgram/m 3 ) (Tenailleau et al, 2016), which were measured by a governmental body (Institute of Public Health, 2013) (the latest available data of NO 2 ). This data indicated that 60 percent of crossroads (of this study) were source of air pollution in residential areas of Tirana causing likely health outcomes (e.g.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Interpolated noise levels estimations were then used to produce noise distribution map to identify high noise levels (above a threshold value associated with possible noise-related health implications) and non-high noise levels areas (below the threshold value associated with no noise-related health implications). High noise level and non-high noise levels were selected by assuming an average outdoor noise level of 55 dBA (the threshold value of noise-related health implications) of national and the World Health Organization (WHO) community noise standards in residential areas (World Health Organization, 1999;Gulliver et al, 2015;Tenailleau et al, 2016) for daytime.…”

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“…Noise energy produced by vehicles was expected to negatively affect people living particularly in poorly acoustically isolated buildings (low quality of acoustic isolation material and or no acoustic isolation material used), which were close to a crossroads (main road junctions). Tenailleau et al (2016) showed that the number of buildings, average noise level and NO 2 diffusion increased with decreasing distance to the nearest main road indicating that road traffic (vehicles) were one of the major environmental pollution sources in a European middle size urban area of Besançon in France. Davies et al (2009) have found a positive correlation between noise and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) and nitrogen oxides (NO X ) concentrations emitted from motor vehicles in traffic (including intersections or crossroads).…”

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Identifying high noise levels with possible health implications at building façades for five crossroads in Tirana, Albania

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Road traffic in crossroads increases noise levels in Tirana. This study demonstrates the inhabitants' perceptions on noise using questionnaires and noise level predictions at building façades using three different speed roads and four ranges of building heights, and applying the Nordic Prediction Method for five crossroad urban areas of Tirana. Nordic Prediction Method was applied to calculate: (1) basic noise for high and low speed roads, (2) noise levels for outside receivers at building façade in crossroad neighbourhoods. A quarter of respondents (out of 36) perceived to get sick due to high noise levels, and at least one respondent in every crossroads perceived their crossroad environments associated with high noise levels. Outside receivers (imaginary receivers or inhabitants) at building façades located at crossroads and close to high speed roads were exposed to high noise levels exceeding the national and the WHO community noise standards of 55 dBA for daytime. Speeds of vehicles and locations of buildings in crossroad neighbourhoods contributed to noise levels at building façades. This study identified high noise level areas that can be further investigated in terms of long-term effects of high noise levels on population health in Tirana.

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“…In the analysis, LAeq data were used to describe the traffic noise in the studied sites. LAeq is a widely used noise descriptor and commonly adopted in many developed countries to explain noise level such as Denmark, United Kingdom, France and Sweden [14]- [16]. The main objective of noise measurement is to determine the noise levels at residential areas in Nibong Tebal and Juru, Penang.…”

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Changes in epiphytic lichen diversity along the urban-rural gradient before, during, and after the acid rain period

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Spatial variations in epiphytic macrolichen richness in the city of Oslo were assessed annually 1973–2019. These observations were contrasted with earlier published data from 1930 to examine how long-term changes in species richness of functional groups track different stages of air pollution regimes. From 1930 to the 1970’s, representing the early surge and late peak of S-deposition, the lichen-deficient urban area remained largely unaltered. Epiphytic macrolichen richness in the surrounding zone declined and changed from a mix of nitrophytes and acidophytes in 1930 when agriculture was still present to a dominance of acidophytes in the 1970’s shortly after the acid rain peak. The subsequent 1980-2019-period marked by significantly lower S-emissions, and weakly decreasing N-deposition, experienced a shift from acidophytes to nitrophytes, following the successful control of acid rain. This underscores the role of pH as a contributing determinant of the strong nitrophyte recolonization. While successive pollution regimes shaped functional group-specific changes in lichen richness over the past 90 years, continuous rain in autumn 2000 led to sudden temporal lichen dieback across the urban-to-rural gradient, delaying lichen recovery after the acid rain period by approximately 5 years for nitrophytes and over 15 years for acidophytes. Epiphytic lichen richness never returned to the high levels seen in 1930, even in the outer parts of the urban-rural gradient and despite the reduction in S-deposition. Excess N impedes effective establishment of acidophytic lichens and prevents full recovery of the former diversity.

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Do outdoor environmental noise and atmospheric NO2 levels spatially overlap in urban areas?

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Identifying high noise levels with possible health implications at building façades for five crossroads in Tirana, Albania

Identifying high noise levels with possible health implications at building façades for five crossroads in Tirana, Albania

Comparison of Road Traffic Noise near High, Medium and Low Density Residential Areas in Nibong Tebal and Juru, Penang

Changes in epiphytic lichen diversity along the urban-rural gradient before, during, and after the acid rain period

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