Community Response to Multiple Sound Sources: Integrating Acoustic and Contextual Approaches in the Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Sufficient data refer to the relevant prevalence of sound exposure by mixed traffic sources in many nations. Furthermore, consideration of the potential effects of combined sound exposure is required in legal procedures such as environmental health impact assessments. Nevertheless, current practice still uses single exposure response functions. It is silently assumed that those standard exposure-response curves accommodate also for mixed exposures-although some evidence from experimental and field studies casts doubt on this practice. The ALPNAP-study population (N = 1641) shows sufficient subgroups with combinations of rail-highway, highway-main road and rail-highway-main road sound exposure. In this paper we apply a few suggested approaches of the literature to investigate exposur

SUBMITTER: Lercher P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5486349 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature