Nocturnal air, road, and rail traffic noise and daytime cognitive performance and annoyance

Elmenhorst, Eva‐Maria; Quehl, Julia; Müller, Uwe; Basner, Mathias

doi:10.1121/1.4842475

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“…As we have hypothesized before, our results further support the notion that physiological, unconscious reactions during sleep are different from psychological, conscious reactions during wakefulness, and cannot be predicted from annoyance surveys [17,18] since the impact of the traffic modes on annoyance shows an inversed ranking [9]. This ranking has also been confirmed in the AIRORA study [8]. In a survey more residents had been bothered, annoyed or disturbed from aircraft noise than from road traffic noise in the last 12 months even though noise exposure with regard to nightly L Aeq and maximum A-weighted SPL of noise events had been similar [40].…”

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confidence: 88%

“…So, long-term negative health effects of traffic noise [5,6,7] might be mediated via sleep disruptions. Secondary reactions to noise like daytime sleepiness and performance impairments [8,9,10,11,12], and subjective daytime annoyance have been subject to intense research activities [13,14,15,16]. Annoyance has been reported to vary in degree depending on traffic modes, i.e., residents feel most annoyed by aircraft noise, and least by railway noise with road traffic noise ranging in between [17,18] when exposed to an equal A-weighted sound pressure level (SPL).…”

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Comparing the Effects of Road, Railway, and Aircraft Noise on Sleep: Exposure–Response Relationships from Pooled Data of Three Laboratory Studies

Elmenhorst

Griefahn

Rolny

et al. 2019

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Objectives: Air, road, and railway traffic, the three major sources of traffic noise, have been reported to differently impact on annoyance. However, these findings may not be transferable to physiological reactions during sleep which are considered to decrease nighttime recovery and might mediate long-term negative health effects. Studies on awakenings from sleep indicate that railway noise, while having the least impact on annoyance, may have the most disturbing properties on sleep compared to aircraft noise. This study presents a comparison between the three major traffic modes and their probability to cause awakenings. In combining acoustical and polysomnographical data from three laboratory studies sample size and generalizability of the findings were increased. Methods: Data from three laboratory studies were pooled, conducted at two sites in Germany (German Aerospace Center, Cologne, and Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund). In total, the impact of 109,836 noise events on polysomnographically assessed awakenings was analyzed in 237 subjects using a random intercept logistic regression model. Results: The best model fit according to the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) included different acoustical and sleep parameters. After adjusting for these moderators results showed that the probability to wake up from equal maximum A-weighted sound pressure levels (SPL) increased in the order aircraft < road < railway noise, the awakening probability from road and railway noise being not significantly different (p = 0.988). At 70 dB SPL, it was more than 7% less probable to wake up due to aircraft noise than due to railway noise. Conclusions: The three major traffic noise sources differ in their impact on sleep. The order with which their impact increased was inversed compared to the order that was found in annoyance surveys. It is thus important to choose the correct concept for noise legislation, i.e., physiological sleep metrics in addition to noise annoyance for nighttime noise protection.

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Comparing the Effects of Road, Railway, and Aircraft Noise on Sleep: Exposure–Response Relationships from Pooled Data of Three Laboratory Studies

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Rolny

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“…This is concordant with an experimental study where those exposed to more than one noise source had more sleep fragmentation and worse sleep [13] but not with another study where those exposed were sleep quality decreased equally for those exposed only to road traffic or road traffic and ventilation noise [44]. In another experimental study, individuals reported more annoyance from aircraft noise when exposed to multiple noise sources [45]. We did not detect a trend with regards to aircraft noise in our study.…”

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Sleep Disturbance from Road Traffic, Railways, Airplanes and from Total Environmental Noise Levels in Montreal

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Plante²,

Ragettli

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The objective of our study was to measure the impact of transportation-related noise and total environmental noise on sleep disturbance for the residents of Montreal, Canada. A telephone-based survey on noise-related sleep disturbance among 4336 persons aged 18 years and over was conducted. LNight for each study participant was estimated using a land use regression (LUR) model. Distance of the respondent’s residence to the nearest transportation noise source was also used as an indicator of noise exposure. The proportion of the population whose sleep was disturbed by outdoor environmental noise in the past 4 weeks was 12.4%. The proportion of those affected by road traffic, airplane and railway noise was 4.2%, 1.5% and 1.1%, respectively. We observed an increased prevalence in sleep disturbance for those exposed to both rail and road noise when compared for those exposed to road only. We did not observe an increased prevalence in sleep disturbance for those that were both exposed to road and planes when compared to those exposed to road or planes only. We developed regression models to assess the marginal proportion of sleep disturbance as a function of estimated LNight and distance to transportation noise sources. In our models, sleep disturbance increased with proximity to transportation noise sources (railway, airplane and road traffic) and with increasing LNight values. Our study provides a quantitative estimate of the association between total environmental noise levels estimated using an LUR model and sleep disturbance from transportation noise.

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“…Aircraft noise was generally considered more annoying, displaying a more pronounced impact on sleep, than noise exposure from road and railway traffic ( 67 , 156 ). A recent study of 15,010 subjects (selected randomly from the local registry in the city of Mainz and the district of Mainz-Bingen, a large population-based, prospective, observational, single-center cohort study in the Rhine-Main-Region in Western Mid-Germany) revealed that aircraft noise exposure was a major environmental trigger of public annoyance in 60% of the included individuals ( Fig.…”

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The Adverse Effects of Environmental Noise Exposure on Oxidative Stress and Cardiovascular Risk

Münzel

Sørensen

Schmidt

et al. 2018

Antioxidants & Redox Signaling

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Epidemiological studies have provided evidence that traffic noise exposure is linked to cardiovascular diseases such as arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, and stroke. Noise is a nonspecific stressor that activates the autonomous nervous system and endocrine signaling. According to the noise reaction model introduced by Babisch and colleagues, chronic low levels of noise can cause so-called nonauditory effects, such as disturbances of activity, sleep, and communication, which can trigger a number of emotional responses, including annoyance and subsequent stress. Chronic stress in turn is associated with cardiovascular risk factors, comprising increased blood pressure and dyslipidemia, increased blood viscosity and blood glucose, and activation of blood clotting factors, in animal models and humans. Persistent chronic noise exposure increases the risk of cardiometabolic diseases, including arterial hypertension, coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus type 2, and stroke. Recently, we demonstrated that aircraft noise exposure during nighttime can induce endothelial dysfunction in healthy subjects and is even more pronounced in coronary artery disease patients. Importantly, impaired endothelial function was ameliorated by acute oral treatment with the antioxidant vitamin C, suggesting that excessive production of reactive oxygen species contributes to this phenomenon. More recently, we introduced a novel animal model of aircraft noise exposure characterizing the underlying molecular mechanisms leading to noise-dependent adverse oxidative stress-related effects on the vasculature. With the present review, we want to provide an overview of epidemiological, translational clinical, and preclinical noise research addressing the nonauditory, adverse effects of noise exposure with focus on oxidative stress. Antioxid. Redox Signal. 28, 873–908.

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Nocturnal air, road, and rail traffic noise and daytime cognitive performance and annoyance

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

Comparing the Effects of Road, Railway, and Aircraft Noise on Sleep: Exposure–Response Relationships from Pooled Data of Three Laboratory Studies

Comparing the Effects of Road, Railway, and Aircraft Noise on Sleep: Exposure–Response Relationships from Pooled Data of Three Laboratory Studies

Sleep Disturbance from Road Traffic, Railways, Airplanes and from Total Environmental Noise Levels in Montreal

The Adverse Effects of Environmental Noise Exposure on Oxidative Stress and Cardiovascular Risk

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