Airborne Sound Power Levels and Spectra of Noise Sources in Port Areas

Samuele Schiavoni, Francesco D’Alessandro, Davide Borelli (), Luca Fredianelli (), Tomaso Gaggero, Corrado Schenone and Giorgio Baldinelli
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Samuele Schiavoni: Metexis s.r.l., Via Bartolomeo Grazioli 91, 06132 Perugia, Italy
Francesco D’Alessandro: Italian National Research Council—Institute on Atmospheric Pollution at Italian Ministry of Ecological Transition, Via Cristoforo Colombo 44, 00147 Rome, Italy
Davide Borelli: Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transport Engineering, Division of Thermal Energy and Environmental Conditioning, University of Genoa, Via all’Opera Pia 15/A, 16145 Genoa, Italy
Luca Fredianelli: Institute of Chemical and Physical Processes of National Research Council, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy
Tomaso Gaggero: Department of Telecommunications, Electrical and Electronics Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Genoa, Via Montallegro 1, 16145 Genoa, Italy
Corrado Schenone: Department of Mechanical, Energy, Management and Transport Engineering, Division of Thermal Energy and Environmental Conditioning, University of Genoa, Via all’Opera Pia 15/A, 16145 Genoa, Italy
Giorgio Baldinelli: CIRIAF—Inter University Research Centre for Environment and Pollution “Mauro Felli”, Via G. Duranti 67, 06125 Perugia, Italy

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 17, 1-22

Abstract: Airborne port noise has historically suffered from a lack of regulatory assessment compared to other transport infrastructures. This has led to several complaints from citizens living in the urban areas surrounding ports, which is a very common situation, especially in countries facing the Mediterranean sea. Only in relatively recent years has an effort been made to improve this situation, which has resulted in a call for and financing of numerous international cooperation research projects, within the framework of programs such as EU FP7, H2020, ENPI-CBC MED, LIFE, and INTERREG. These projects dealt with issues and aspects of port noise, which is an intrinsically tangled problem, since several authorities and companies operate within the borders of ports, and several different noise sources are present at the same time. In addition, ship classification societies have recently recognized the problem and nowadays are developing procedures and voluntary notations to assess the airborne noise emission from marine vessels. The present work summarizes the recent results of research regarding port noise sources in order to provide a comprehensive database of sources that can be easily used, for example, as an input to the noise mapping phase, and can subsequently prevent citizens’ exposure to noise.

Keywords: port noise; noise sources; noise mapping; noise mitigations; noise modeling; ship noise; sustainable management; noise exposure prevention; noise measurements; research projects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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