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Effects of Motorcycle Noise on Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in the Alps
Motorcycle noise is an increasing noise problem, especially in Alpine valleys with winding roads and low environmental noise. The annoyance response to motorcycle engine noise is extraordinarily high in comparison to other traffic noise and cannot be explained by standard noise assessment curves. Th...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084591/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32121377 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051580 |
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author | Lechner, Christoph Schnaiter, David Siebert, Uwe Böse-O’Reilly, Stephan |
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description | Motorcycle noise is an increasing noise problem, especially in Alpine valleys with winding roads and low environmental noise. The annoyance response to motorcycle engine noise is extraordinarily high in comparison to other traffic noise and cannot be explained by standard noise assessment curves. Therefore, the Tyrolean state government decided to initiate a multi-purpose study. Exposures were calculated based on sound-measurements taken across the entire district of Reutte in the western part of the State of Tyrol and a telephone survey (n = 545) was conducted with regional participants. The influence of demographic characteristics; sensitivity to noise; attitudes towards motorcycles and background noise on the annoyance was examined using bivariate analyses. In addition; exposure-response curves and their 95% confidence intervals with cut-off points of 60% and 72% for “highly annoyed” were created. The exposure annoyance response curves for motorcycle noise show a shift of more than 30 dB in annoyance reaction compared to other road traffic noise. The annoyance response to motorcycle noise in this Alpine region is concentrated on summer Sundays and Saturdays and is independent of the background exposure caused by other road traffic |
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spelling | pubmed-70845912020-03-24 Effects of Motorcycle Noise on Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in the Alps Lechner, Christoph Schnaiter, David Siebert, Uwe Böse-O’Reilly, Stephan Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Motorcycle noise is an increasing noise problem, especially in Alpine valleys with winding roads and low environmental noise. The annoyance response to motorcycle engine noise is extraordinarily high in comparison to other traffic noise and cannot be explained by standard noise assessment curves. Therefore, the Tyrolean state government decided to initiate a multi-purpose study. Exposures were calculated based on sound-measurements taken across the entire district of Reutte in the western part of the State of Tyrol and a telephone survey (n = 545) was conducted with regional participants. The influence of demographic characteristics; sensitivity to noise; attitudes towards motorcycles and background noise on the annoyance was examined using bivariate analyses. In addition; exposure-response curves and their 95% confidence intervals with cut-off points of 60% and 72% for “highly annoyed” were created. The exposure annoyance response curves for motorcycle noise show a shift of more than 30 dB in annoyance reaction compared to other road traffic noise. The annoyance response to motorcycle noise in this Alpine region is concentrated on summer Sundays and Saturdays and is independent of the background exposure caused by other road traffic MDPI 2020-02-29 2020-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7084591/ /pubmed/32121377 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051580 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Lechner, Christoph Schnaiter, David Siebert, Uwe Böse-O’Reilly, Stephan Effects of Motorcycle Noise on Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in the Alps |
title | Effects of Motorcycle Noise on Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in the Alps |
title_full | Effects of Motorcycle Noise on Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in the Alps |
title_fullStr | Effects of Motorcycle Noise on Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in the Alps |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of Motorcycle Noise on Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in the Alps |
title_short | Effects of Motorcycle Noise on Annoyance—A Cross-Sectional Study in the Alps |
title_sort | effects of motorcycle noise on annoyance—a cross-sectional study in the alps |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7084591/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32121377 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17051580 |
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