Temporal and spatial stratification for the estimation of nocturnal long-term noise levels

Quintero, G.; Romeu Garbí, Jordi; Balastegui Manso, Andreu

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2018.11.052

dc.contributor.author	Quintero, G.
dc.contributor.author	Romeu Garbí, Jordi
dc.contributor.author	Balastegui Manso, Andreu
dc.contributor.other	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Mecànica
dc.date.accessioned	2019-01-18T13:06:41Z
dc.date.issued	2019-02-01
dc.identifier.citation	Quintero, G., Romeu, J., Balastegui, A. Temporal and spatial stratification for the estimation of nocturnal long-term noise levels. "Environmental pollution", 1 Febrer 2019, vol. 245, p. 666.
dc.identifier.issn	0269-7491
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2117/127206
dc.description.abstract	Noise pollution in cities is mainly caused by the vehicular traffic but, depending on the place under assessment, it could be affected by the land use. For noise assessment and strategic noise mapping, the night period equivalent level (), which evaluates sleep disturbance, is one of the requirements of the European Directive 2002/49/EC to be presented for the equivalent time of one year. This research aims to find the influence of the land use in the weekdays stratification to improve the accuracy of the long-term noise level estimation for the night period. It is found that depending on the land use of the place under assessment, the weekdays temporal and spatial stratification could be affected by leisure activities. From a statistical analysis based on a clustering procedure of samples in 19 points, it is observed that both, temporal and spatial stratification depend on the intensity of the surrounding leisure activity, and not on traffic. Following these stratification criteria, a sampling method is presented that reduces by 47% the number of days needed to estimate the annual levels with respect to random sampling
dc.format.extent	1 p.
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject	Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Desenvolupament humà i sostenible::Degradació ambiental
dc.subject.lcsh	Noise pollution
dc.subject.lcsh	Noise pollution--Measurement
dc.subject.lcsh	Noise--Social aspects
dc.subject.other	Noise assessment
dc.subject.other	Land use
dc.subject.other	Night period
dc.subject.other	Leisure noise
dc.subject.other	Cluster analysis
dc.title	Temporal and spatial stratification for the estimation of nocturnal long-term noise levels
dc.type	Article
dc.subject.lemac	Contaminació acústica
dc.subject.lemac	Contaminació acústica -- Control
dc.subject.lemac	Contaminació -- Anàlisi
dc.contributor.group	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LEAM - Laboratori d'Enginyeria Acústica i Mecànica
dc.identifier.doi	10.1016/j.envpol.2018.11.052
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749118326216
dc.rights.access	Restricted access - publisher's policy
drac.iddocument	23542451
dc.description.version	Postprint (author's final draft)
dc.date.lift	2020-11-20
upcommons.citation.author	Quintero, G.; Romeu, J.; Balastegui, A.
upcommons.citation.published	true
upcommons.citation.publicationName	Environmental pollution
upcommons.citation.volume	245
upcommons.citation.startingPage	666
upcommons.citation.endingPage	666