ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2019
Comparing the Effects of Road, Railway, and Aircraft Noise on Sleep: Exposure⁻Response Relationships from Pooled Data of Three Laboratory Studies.
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- Urban Noise and Psychological Distress: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Traffic Noise and Mental Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
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- Associations between Aircraft Noise Exposure and Self-Reported Sleep Duration and Quality in the United States-Based Prospective Nurses' Health Study Cohort.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
- Evaluating the Impact of Metro Interior Noise on Passenger Annoyance: An Experimental Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Aircraft Noise Distribution as a Fairness Dilemma-A Review of Aircraft Noise through the Lens of Social Justice Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Sleep in Isolated, Confined, and Extreme (ICE): A Review on the Different Factors Affecting Human Sleep in ICE.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Review
- Assessing the Impact of Road Traffic Externalities on Residential Price Values: A Case Study in Madrid, Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Associations of Various Nighttime Noise Exposure Indicators with Objective Sleep Efficiency and Self-Reported Sleep Quality: A Field Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Impact of Noise from Heat Pumps on Sleep, Noise Annoyance, and Concentration in Healthy Adults in a Laboratory Setting.Noise & healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesAir, road, and railway traffic, the three major sources of traffic noise, have been reported to differently impact on annoyance. However, these findings may not be transferable to physiological reactions during sleep which are considered to decrease nighttime recovery and might mediate long-term negative health effects. Studies on awakenings from sleep indicate that railway noise, while having the least impact on annoyance, may have the most disturbing properties on sleep compared to aircraft noise. This study presents a comparison between the three major traffic modes and their probability to cause awakenings. In combining acoustical and polysomnographical data from three laboratory studies sample size and generalizability of the findings were increased.
methodsData from three laboratory studies were pooled, conducted at two sites in Germany (German Aerospace Center, Cologne, and Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund). In total, the impact of 109,836 noise events on polysomnographically assessed awakenings was analyzed in 237 subjects using a random intercept logistic regression model.
resultsThe best model fit according to the Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) included different acoustical and sleep parameters. After adjusting for these moderators results showed that the probability to wake up from equal maximum A-weighted sound pressure levels (SPL) increased in the order aircraft < road < railway noise, the awakening probability from road and railway noise being not significantly different (
conclusionsThe three major traffic noise sources differ in their impact on sleep. The order with which their impact increased was inversed compared to the order that was found in annoyance surveys. It is thus important to choose the correct concept for noise legislation, i.e., physiological sleep metrics in addition to noise annoyance for nighttime noise protection.
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