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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).
23 cze 2024 · Defined as unwanted or disturbing sounds, noise pollution from increasing traffic and crowded schools, can also have a detrimental impact on babies' and children's health and development.
Our study highlights the increasing significance of transportation noise exposure in US cities, with a disproportionately adverse impact on minority racial-ethnic groups. These findings underscore the critical need to address the unequal exposure to transportation noise experienced by vulnerable populations.
1 sty 2022 · There was high quality evidence that residential noise is associated with cognitive impairment in 45 + year-olds, moderate quality evidence that noise exposure (especially aircraft noise) was associated with reading and related abilities in children, and moderate quality evidence that executive function was not associated with aircraft noise in ...
24 kwi 2024 · Noise Pollution in the United States. Median Income. Methods. For this project, I pulled noise pollution data from the National Transportation Noise Map from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which includes highway, railroad, and aviation pollution (National Transportation Noise Map, n.d.).
18 maj 2018 · Noise — which can be defined as unwanted sound waves that were not present in the pre – modern electromagnetic spectrum — is one of the most common forms of pollution, one that can easily damage the hearing and general health of people and animals. Noise and human hearing.
