The Guideline on Odour in Ambient Air has been in use for many years for odour regulation in Germany. The main parameter that the odour regulation authority has to take into account is the odour frequency expressed as odour hours per year. In the guideline, limit values are given for the maximum odour frequency per year. These limit values are based on field investigations in which significant ...

Identifying the quantitative relationship between the sound pressure level and noise annoyance for environmental noises is important from the viewpoint of noise assessment. In this study, a method for predicting the probabilistic evaluation quantities like Lx ((100−x) percentile level) and LAeq (equivalent A-weighted sound pressure level) of the noise environment is proposed by introducing a no...

Noise remains a potent degrader of health in many global contexts, capable of inducing severe annoyance and sleep disturbance. An epidemiological study was undertaken to compare noise annoyance and health-related quality of life of individuals residing close to a major international airport or wind turbine complex with those located in demographically matched areas. Results indicate that domain...

The Noise Related Annoyance Cognition and Health (NORAH) research initiative is one of the most extensive studies on the physiological and psychological long-term effects of transportation noise in Europe. It includes research on the quality of life and annoyance as well as cardiovascular effects, sleep disturbance, breast cancer, blood pressure, depression and the cognitive development of chil...

OBJECTIVE This review examines the literature related to health effects of wind turbines. METHODS We reviewed literature related to sound measurements near turbines, epidemiological and experimental studies, and factors associated with annoyance. RESULTS (1) Infrasound sound near wind turbines does not exceed audibility thresholds. (2) Epidemiological studies have shown associations between...

Environmental valuation techniques can be successfully used to estimate the social costs of noise annoyance experienced by households. A Contingent Valuation (CV) survey of 600 households affected by noise in two Norwegian communities found a mean willingness-to-pay (WTP) of about 120 euro/household/year for a public program that would reduce transportation and community noise. The program woul...

When planning the development or reduction of large traffic facilities, acoustic calculation procedures are used to forecast the noise load in the affected residential areas. Then, existing dose/response relationships for steady state situations are used to predict noise effects in future years. Planners often assume that (1) noise annoyance reactions of residents do not change over the years, ...

The time of day when vibration occurs is considered as a factor influencing the human response to vibration. The aim of the present paper is to identify the times of day during which railway vibration causes the greatest annoyance, to measure the differences between annoyance responses for different time periods and to obtain estimates of the time of day penalties. This was achieved using data ...

The aim of this paper is to design a generic model of the correlation between aircrafts’noises and riparian persons’annoyance. This study is in keeping with Artificial Intelligence, and it focuses on the study of the relations between systems and unvoluntary users. Beyond a mere “noise level” ! “annoyance” function, we aim at defining more precisely the causal relations between noise characteri...