Effect of urban morphology on road noise distribution

Bouzir, Tallal Abdel Karim; Zemmouri, Noureddine

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.07.121

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“…In this context, landscape metrics, including parameters like building type, orientation and height, green space distribution, geometric features and densities are deployed to analyze the relation between urban structure and noise. Thus, it is strongly suggested that urban properties are a proxy to noise burdens [128][129][130][131][132][133][134]. Even though these studies suggest a strong relationship between the urban inventory and noise levels, a reverse extrapolation of noise exposure from easily accessible geographic data on large spatial scale have yet to be developed.…”

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Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research—A Review

Weigand

Wurm

Dech

et al. 2019

IJGI

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Human health is known to be affected by the physical environment. Various environmental influences have been identified to benefit or challenge people’s physical condition. Their heterogeneous distribution in space results in unequal burdens depending on the place of living. In addition, since societal groups tend to also show patterns of segregation, this leads to unequal exposures depending on social status. In this context, environmental justice research examines how certain social groups are more affected by such exposures. Yet, analyses of this per se spatial phenomenon are oftentimes criticized for using “essentially aspatial” data or methods which neglect local spatial patterns by aggregating environmental conditions over large areas. Recent technological and methodological developments in satellite remote sensing have proven to provide highly detailed information on environmental conditions. This narrative review therefore discusses known influences of the urban environment on human health and presents spatial data and applications for analyzing these influences. Furthermore, it is discussed how geographic data are used in general and in the interdisciplinary research field of environmental justice in particular. These considerations include the modifiable areal unit problem and ecological fallacy. In this review we argue that modern earth observation data can represent an important data source for research on environmental justice and health. Especially due to their high level of spatial detail and the provided large-area coverage, they allow for spatially continuous description of environmental characteristics. As a future perspective, ongoing earth observation missions, as well as processing architectures, ensure data availability and applicability of ’big earth data’ for future environmental justice analyses.

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Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research—A Review

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Wurm

Dech

et al. 2019

IJGI

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“…Many studies focused on the relationship that can exist between urban fabric and outdoor noise distribution, showing that the distribution of road noise depends on the urban form and that there is a strong relationship between urban fabric and road noisescape [15]. The spacing between buildings, cavities, and streets dimensions could play a good effect in distributing outdoor noise since areas between buildings and semi-courts have the lowest noise levels.…”

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Contribution of the Vernacular Architecture to the Sustainability: A Comparative Study between the Contemporary Areas and the Old Quarter of a Mediterranean City

2019

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The strongest point of vernacular architecture is the harmony between environment and buildings. Mediterranean vernacular architecture is harmonized with its local context, including culture and traditions. In addition, it respects environmental and climatic factors, construction materials, and morphology. In the past, people in Palestine built their houses according to their possibilities, needs, available materials, topography, and culture. Without any control from the government or any legal limitations or architects, it was people’s architecture, simple architecture. This paper discusses the differences between vernacular and contemporary residential buildings of the city of Nablus at the building scale. The research methodology adopts explanatory qualitative analysis and comparative synthesis methods for both the old and the new buildings of the city of Nablus and considers many parameters of residential buildings such as building materials, interior spaces, openings and vegetation, and the effect of sociocultural values on each. The outcomes of this research allow understanding how the new city residential buildings are far away from the sustainability principles and how the old city is close to it and how the architects and stakeholders could learn from the strategies of vernacular architecture.

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“…The results of research conducted in this area indicate that urban morphology has a considerable impact on noise distribution level. The research includes dependencies between urban landscape morphology, represented by a specific pattern of land development and streets, and spatial distribution in the urban environment [9,10]. In large urban areas, work is being undertaken concerning the assessment of the correlation between huge emitters of acoustic energy, for example, airports and approach airways to runways, and urban areas directly affected by them [11,12].…”

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“…On the one hand, this approach causes certain limitation in assessing noise pollution hazard only to physical features of sound, whereas on the other hand, it overlooks the meaning and significance of the psychoacoustic aspects of noise, including noise annoyance. Research conducted in this area is justified by applying advanced modeling methods in evaluating the environment endangered by noise [9]. It is assumed that the solutions applied will be based not only on taking into consideration physical parameters of acoustic signal assessment, but also on the evaluation of spatial distribution of selected measurements of objects in the urban environment.…”

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The Modeling of the Acoustic Condition of Urban Environment Using Noise Annoyance Assessment

Paszkowski

Sobiech

2018

Environ Model Assess

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In the following article, a method of modeling urban environment exposed to road noise pollution for the purpose of noise nuisance assessment has been proposed. In order to accomplish it, GIS technology has been applied to divide the area under study into hexagonal fields. The presented case shows an area of urban environment exposed to noise pollution by means of object feature mapping, in each of the adopted elements. An acoustic and non-acoustic analysis of spatial distribution of the researched object features with the application of the adopted assessment indicators has been conducted. In particular, as assessment indicators, the following have been used: landscape entropy (H), L Aeq (noise_sr), Simpson's diversity index (SIDI), area and length of transportation network (R a , R l), buildings (GSI) and number of stories (FSI), predominance of land cover (LIPI), equality of class distribution (SIEI), and geodiversity index (G d). The statistical analysis of the validity of the aforementioned indices has also been carried out. For the purpose of noise annoyance assessment modeling, the application of statistically relevant assessment indicators has been proposed with the special use of the neural network method.

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Effect of urban morphology on road noise distribution

Cited by 19 publications

References 8 publications

Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research—A Review

Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research—A Review

Contribution of the Vernacular Architecture to the Sustainability: A Comparative Study between the Contemporary Areas and the Old Quarter of a Mediterranean City

The Modeling of the Acoustic Condition of Urban Environment Using Noise Annoyance Assessment

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