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24 lis 2022 · The National Transportation Noise Map provides a basis for understanding what-if scenarios and helping policy makers and planners to prioritize noise-related transportation investments. The data allow viewing the national picture of potential exposure to aviation, highway, and rail noise.
5 gru 2013 · In 1981, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that nearly 100 million people in the United States (about 50% of the population) had annual exposures to traffic noise that were high enough to be harmful to health (Simpson and Bruce 1981).
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has started a national, multi-modal transportation noise mapping initiative to facilitate the tracking of trends in transportation-related noise as changes occur at an unprecedented rate.
9 wrz 2020 · Because of the rapid increase in technology, industrialization, urbanization and other communication and transport systems, noise pollution has reached to a disturbing level over the years which needs to be studied and controlled to avoid different health effects like high blood pressure, sleeplessness, nausea, heart attack, depression ...
In 2016 USDOT’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), with support from the department’s Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, launched the National Transportation Noise Map initiative to track trends in noise related to multiple transportation modes. [1]
Our analysis reveals a consistent increasing trend in transportation noise exposure and associated disparities from 2016 through 2020. Notably, on March 13, 2020, the United States officially implemented shelter-in-place orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (The White House, 2022).
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS) initial National Transportation Noise Map, released today, shows that more than 97 percent of the U.S. population has the potential to be exposed to noise from aviation and Interstate highways at levels below 50 decibels or roughly comparable to the noise ...
