Subjective evaluation of transport noise in Latin America

Assessment of Traffic Noise Pollution from 1989 to 2003 in Lanzhou City

“…Ratio of above criterion cities of traffic noise in monitoring cities of China Years 198919911992199319951996199719981999 It has been reported that road traffic noise in developing countries has not yet been recognized as a major problem (Fuchs, 1975). With the increase of population and automobiles, developing countries have been aware of traffic noise pollution step by step.…”

Road Traffic Noise in Nigeria: Measurements, Analysis and Evaluation of Nuisance

“…Hall and Taylor [7] found several noise measures, (¸C O , and the day}night average sound level,¸B L ) to be equally good predictors of subjective response and concluded that the reliability of the predictions can be validly estimated by using the standard errors of regression estimate, thus strengthening the basis for such predictions. Although it has been reported that road tra$c noise in developing countries has not yet been recognized as a major problem [8], work carried out in Jeddah city [9,10] indicates that noise from road tra$c is very intensive, and relatively high sound pressure levels (90 dB (A) and higher) were recorded in many cases. Recent work [11] has shown that in the Nigerian environment the kind of noise that bothers people most is road tra$c noise.…”

Community responses to road traffic noise in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City

“…Since 1992, the number of public complaints of such noise has increased in Europe [13]. 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.…”