The effect of outdoor vegetation, as seen from the living room's window facing an inner-city
ring road, on the self-reported noise annoyance, was studied. Face-to-face surveys were …

The health and equity issues related to urban pollution, coupled with the need to assess the
consequences of implementing transport policies or new mobility solutions, make it …

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly modified our urban territories. One of the most
strongly affected parameters was outdoor noise, caused by traffic and human activity in …

The sound environment in urban areas is complex, as caused by many sources of sound
and influenced by a variety of acoustic propagation effects. In order to combat noise and …

Noise pollution has been impacting negatively on living comfort and working environment
for a long time. Acoustic treatment on building façade is one of the effective means to tackle …

Since the introduction of the Environmental Noise Directive, strategic noise mapping has
been used as a tool for noise policy in many European countries. Although these strategic …

Regulatory road traffic noise maps are based on input data that are sometimes incomplete,
erroneous or non-existent. When designing them, it is therefore necessary to label and …

Noise exposure has been calculated and analysed for 31 different urban morphologies in an
urban setting. For five of the urban morphologies also vegetation surfaces on facades and …

Modeling areawide traffic noise in both space and time domain is a tedious work, especially
in urban built-up area. A smart, accurate and rapid method was developed specifically for …

In this chapter, examples of the application of urbanism approaches are described not only
to reduce unwanted noise but also to improve the quality of the sonic environment. By …