Noise emitted from road, rail and air traffic and their effects on sleep

Griefahn, Barbara; Marks, Anke; Robens, Sibylle

doi:10.1016/j.jsv.2005.12.052

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“…In fact, exposure to noise from traffic, aircraft, a railway, and the neighborhood is inversely related to income (Gualezzi, 1998). Further, because the body responds to external stimuli, noise is linked with significant increases in sleep latency (Griefahn, Marks, & Robens, 2006), body movement, psychological stress (Stansfeld & Matheson, 2003), as well as adverse effects on the cardiovascular (e.g., increased heart rate; Zhao, Zhang, Selin, & Spear, 1991) and endocrine systems (e.g., increased catecholamines; Evans, Hygge, & Bullinger, 1995).…”

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Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Gradients Exist for Sleep Quality, Sleep Latency, Sleep Duration, Weekend Oversleep, and Daytime Sleepiness in Adults

Jarrin

McGrath

Silverstein

et al. 2013

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

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Socioeconomic gradients exist for multiple health outcomes. Lower objective socioeconomic position (SEP), whether measured by income, education, or occupation, is associated with inadequate sleep. Less is known about whether one's perceived ranking of their social status, or subjective SEP, affects sleep. This study examined whether a subjective socioeconomic gradient exists for sleep while controlling for objective SEP. Participants (N = 177; age, M = 45.3 years, SD = 6.3 years) completed the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, MacArthur Ladder, and other self-report measures to assess sleep and objective SEP. Subjective SEP trumped objective SEP as a better predictor of sleep duration, daytime sleepiness, and weekend oversleep. These findings highlight the need to expand our framework to better understand the mechanisms underlying socioeconomic gradients and sleep.It is well established that a socioeconomic gradient exists for multiple health outcomes, even after adjusting for known risk factors. Adults of lower socioeconomic position (SEP) report more frequent acute and chronic physical (e.g., insomnia) and mental problems (e.g., depression), as well as poorer quality of life, compared to adults of higher SEP (Adler et al

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Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Gradients Exist for Sleep Quality, Sleep Latency, Sleep Duration, Weekend Oversleep, and Daytime Sleepiness in Adults

Jarrin

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Silverstein

et al. 2013

Behavioral Sleep Medicine

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“…Sleep disturbance is a major health issue associated with transportation noise [5,6], and the research evidence is that the physiological effect of such noise on human sleep may depend more on the level and number of noise events in traffic streams than on energy equivalent measures [7][8][9]. Community reaction to sleep disturbance from night-time noise has been highlighted in a review of the increased operations of night-time freight traffic in Australia [10].…”

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A road traffic noise pattern simulation model that includes distributions of vehicle sound power levels

Coensel¹,

Brown²,

Tomerini³

2016

Applied Acoustics

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Annoyance, sleep disturbance and other health effects of road traffic noise exposure may be related to both level and number of noise events caused by traffic, not just to energy equivalent measures of exposure. Dynamic traffic noise prediction models that include instantaneous vehicle noise emissions can be used to estimate either of these measures. However, current state-of-the-art vehicle noise emission models typically consider a single emission law for each vehicle category, whereas measurements show that the variation in noise emission between vehicles within the same category can be considerable. It is essential that the influence of vehicles that are producing significantly more (or less) noise than the average vehicle are taken into account in modelling in order to correctly predict the levels and frequency of occurrence of road traffic noise events, and in particular to calculate indicators that characterize these noise events. Here, an approach for predicting instantaneous sound levels caused by road traffic is presented, which takes into account measured distributions of sound power levels produced by individual vehicles. For the setting of a receiver adjacent to a dual-lane road carrying free flow traffic, the effect of this approach on estimated percentile levels and sound event indicators is investigated. • The software is freely available as a Python plugin to the Aimsun microscopic traffic simulator.• Simulations show that this refined approach affects estimated percentile sound levels by up to 4 dB.• The influence of the approach on indicators for the number of noise events is illustrated.

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“…On the basis of the conducted studies, noise pollution can have various effects on health, including hypertension, risk of heart disease, impact on sleep, psychological effects, annoyance and disruption of daily activities, fatigue, decreased performance in school children, interference with daily life and other effects (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7). The impacts of noise pollution on peoples' sleep and health have been confirmed by various laboratory, field, epidemiology and review studies (8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14). The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that there is various evidence that exposure to noise at night is a cause of self-reported sleep disturbance, which is a major cause of health problems (15).…”

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Measurement and Monetary Valuation of Traffic Noise Pollution by the Top-Down Method in Tabriz City

Roshan

Ahmadi

2015

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Background: Noise pollution is one of the most important problems of both developed and developing countries, especially in the recent decades, and is being exacerbated with industrialization and population growth. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to measure traffic noise pollution in Tabriz city and to evaluate its associated costs by applying the top-down method. Awareness about health costs associated with traffic noise could have great impacts on decision-making for traffic noise control measures. Materials and Methods:In order to obtain the noise level (L den ) at various hours of each day, noise level was first measured at 35 stations in 10 Regions of the city, during the morning, afternoon and night. Second, to obtain the number of people with a certain level of exposer to noise (L den ), the annoyance levels due to traffic noise were assessed by collecting a questionnaire from 300 residents. Results: Based on the study results, divisions eight, nine and two of the city (refer to the municipal division of the cities in Iran) had the highest L den value, with 74.5, 73.5 and 71 dB, respectively. Also, the questionnaire results indicated that 60% of the residents declared medium and high level of annoyance, due to traffic noise. Finally, the calculated cost was equal to 119 926 467 Euros (€). However most costs, namely € 24 727 290, were allocated to region three with the highest population, in spite of a relatively low L den (68.4 dB). Conclusions: Since traffic noise pollution is a high cost for Tabriz residents, extensive preventive measures and comprehensive control programs by managers and city authorities as unavoidable necessities are suggested. The measures have to be taken by urban managers and decision-makers to reduce the health impact of traffic noise on Tabriz residents.

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Noise emitted from road, rail and air traffic and their effects on sleep

Cited by 146 publications

References 18 publications

Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Gradients Exist for Sleep Quality, Sleep Latency, Sleep Duration, Weekend Oversleep, and Daytime Sleepiness in Adults

Objective and Subjective Socioeconomic Gradients Exist for Sleep Quality, Sleep Latency, Sleep Duration, Weekend Oversleep, and Daytime Sleepiness in Adults

A road traffic noise pattern simulation model that includes distributions of vehicle sound power levels

Measurement and Monetary Valuation of Traffic Noise Pollution by the Top-Down Method in Tabriz City

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