Annoyance, Sleep and Concentration Problems due to Combined Traffic Noise and the Benefit of Quiet Side.

Summary, in English

Access to a quiet side in one's dwelling is thought to compensate for higher noise levels at the most exposed façade. It has also been indicated that noise from combined traffic sources causes more noise annoyance than equal average levels from either road traffic or railway noise separately.

• Author: Theo Bodin; Jonas Björk; Jonas Ardö; Maria Albin
• Department/s: EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health; Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University; Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science; BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
• Publishing year: 2015
• Language: English
• Pages: 1612-1628
• Publication/Series: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 2
• Full text: - 754 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25642690?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120201612
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: MDPI AG
• Topic: Environmental Health and Occupational Health
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1660-4601