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Article

Representative Exposure–Annoyance Relationships Due to Transportation Noises in Japan

by
Shigenori Yokoshima
1,*,
Makoto Morinaga
2,
Sohei Tsujimura
3,
Koji Shimoyama
4 and
Takashi Morihara
5
1
Kanagawa Environmental Research Center, Hiratsuka 254-0014, Japan
2
Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, Yokohama 221-8686, Japan
3
Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Hitachi 316-8511, Japan
4
Aviation Environment Research Center, Organization of Airport Facilitation, Tokyo 105-0011, Japan
5
National Institute of Technology, Ishikawa College, Tsubata 929-0392, Japan
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(20), 10935; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010935
Submission received: 3 September 2021 / Revised: 11 October 2021 / Accepted: 11 October 2021 / Published: 18 October 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Noise and Annoyance)
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Abstract

This paper focuses on clarifying the relationship between noise exposure and the prevalence of highly annoyed people due to transportation noise in Japan. The authors accumulated 34 datasets, which were provided by Socio-Acoustic Survey Data Archive and derived from the other surveys conducted in Japan. All the datasets include the following micro-data: demographic factors, exposure, and annoyance data associated with specific noise sources. We performed secondary analyses using micro-data and established the relationships between noise exposure (Lden) and the percentage of highly annoyed people (%HA) for the following noise source: road traffic, conventional railway, Shinkansen railway, civil aircraft, and military aircraft noises. Among the five transportation noises, %HA for the military aircraft noise is the highest, followed by civil aircraft noise and Shinkansen railway noise. The %HA for conventional railway noise was higher than that for road traffic noise. To validate the representativeness of the exposure–response curves, we have discussed factors affecting the difference in annoyance. In addition, comparing the Japanese relationship with that shown in the “Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region,” we revealed that Japanese annoyance is higher than the WHO-reported annoyance.
Keywords: transportation noise; exposure–response relationship; annoyance; secondary analysis transportation noise; exposure–response relationship; annoyance; secondary analysis

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Yokoshima, S.; Morinaga, M.; Tsujimura, S.; Shimoyama, K.; Morihara, T. Representative Exposure–Annoyance Relationships Due to Transportation Noises in Japan. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 10935. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010935

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Yokoshima S, Morinaga M, Tsujimura S, Shimoyama K, Morihara T. Representative Exposure–Annoyance Relationships Due to Transportation Noises in Japan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(20):10935. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010935

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Yokoshima, Shigenori, Makoto Morinaga, Sohei Tsujimura, Koji Shimoyama, and Takashi Morihara. 2021. "Representative Exposure–Annoyance Relationships Due to Transportation Noises in Japan" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 20: 10935. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010935

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Yokoshima, S., Morinaga, M., Tsujimura, S., Shimoyama, K., & Morihara, T. (2021). Representative Exposure–Annoyance Relationships Due to Transportation Noises in Japan. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(20), 10935. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182010935

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