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1SINTEF DIGITAL, N-7465 Trondheim, Norway.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
|February 26, 2020
Abstract:
Sixty-one social surveys on annoyance caused by road traffic noise conducted world-wide over a period of forty-five years have been re-analyzed by various means for possible temporal trends. Eighteen of these surveys were conducted after 2000. People's reactions to road traffic noise seem to have been stable across the study period. No indications were found that would warrant revision of the current EU reference curve for predicting the annoyance from road traffic noise.

