Human Impact Partners Evidence Base
Articles in Road traffic is a major source of environmental noise.
Urban noise increases 6.7 dB with 10-fold increased street traffic, with important contributors being bus and heavy truck traffic.
Seto EY, Holt A, Rivard T, Bhatia R. 2007. Spatial distribution of traffic induced noise exposures in a US city: an analytic tool for assessing the health impacts of urban planning decisions. International Journal of Health Geographics 6(24).22% of the population of the European Union are exposed to transportation noise level exceeding 65 dB during the day, which many countries consider unacceptable.
Miedema HME, Oudshoorn CGM. 2001. Annoyance from transportation noise. Relationships with exposure metrics DNL and DENL and their confidence intervals. Environmental Health Perspectives 109:409-416.