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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2015

Development of a quantitative methodology to assess the impacts of urban transport interventions and related noise on well-being.

Matthias Braubach, Myriam Tobollik, Pierpaolo Mudu, Rosemary Hiscock, Dimitris Chapizanis, Denis A Sarigiannis, Menno Keuken, Laura Perez, Marco Martuzzi

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Analysis of Sampling Methodologies for Noise Pollution Assessment and the Impact on the Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016
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  6. Do Climate Change Policies Promote or Conflict with Subjective Wellbeing: A Case Study of Suzhou, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Matthias BraubachEuropean Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, 53113 Bonn, Germany. mbr@ecehbonn.euro.who.int.
Myriam TobollikFederal Environment Agency, Section II 1.6 Exposure Assessment and Environmental Health Indicators, 14195 Berlin, Germany. myriam.tobollik@uba.de.
Pierpaolo MuduEuropean Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, 53113 Bonn, Germany. mudup@ecehbonn.euro.who.int.
Rosemary HiscockSchool of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, University Road, Bristol BS8 1SS, UK. r.hiscock@bristol.ac.uk.
Dimitris ChapizanisDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Environmental Engineering Laboratory, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. dimitris.chapizanis@gmail.com.
Denis A SarigiannisDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Environmental Engineering Laboratory, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. denis@eng.auth.gr.
Menno KeukenNetherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands. dimitris.chapizanis@gmail.com.
Laura PerezSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Socinstr. 57, 4002 Basel, Switzerland. l.perez@unibas.ch.
Marco MartuzziEuropean Centre for Environment and Health, World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, 53113 Bonn, Germany. martuzzim@ecehbonn.euro.who.int.

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Well-being impact assessments of urban interventions are a difficult challenge, as there is no agreed methodology and scarce evidence on the relationship between environmental conditions and well-being. The European Union (EU) project "Urban Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in China and Europe" (URGENCHE) explored a methodological approach to assess traffic noise-related well-being impacts of transport interventions in three European cities (Basel, Rotterdam and Thessaloniki) linking modeled traffic noise reduction effects with survey data indicating noise-well-being associations. Local noise models showed a reduction of high traffic noise levels in all cities as a result of different urban interventions. Survey data indicated that perception of high noise levels was associated with lower probability of well-being. Connecting the local noise exposure profiles with the noise-well-being associations suggests that the urban transport interventions may have a marginal but positive effect on population well-being. This paper also provides insight into the methodological challenges of well-being assessments and highlights the range of limitations arising from the current lack of reliable evidence on environmental conditions and well-being. Due to these limitations, the results should be interpreted with caution.

Indexed as

Environmental PolicyEnvironment DesignHealth StatusUrban HealthChinaCross-Sectional StudiesEnvironmental ExposureEuropeFemaleHealth SurveysHumansMaleModels, TheoreticalNoise, TransportationOutcome Assessment, Health Careclimate changegreenhouse gasimpact assessmentmitigationnoisetransporturban policieswell-being

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PMID26016437
PMCPMC4483672

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