Community Response to Noise from Hot-Spots at a Major Road in Quito (Ecuador) and Its Application for Identification and Ranking These Areas

Virginia Puyana-Romero, Jose Luis Cueto, Giuseppe Ciaburro, Luis Bravo-Moncayo and Ricardo Hernandez-Molina
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Virginia Puyana-Romero: Grupo de Investigación Entornos Acústicos, Departamento de Ingeniería en Sonido y Acústica, Campus Granados, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito 170125, Ecuador
Jose Luis Cueto: Laboratorio de Ingeniería Acústica, Campus de Puerto Real, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Spain
Giuseppe Ciaburro: Dipartimento di Architettura e Disegno Industriale, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Borgo San Lorenzo, 81031 Aversa, Italy
Luis Bravo-Moncayo: Grupo de Investigación Entornos Acústicos, Departamento de Ingeniería en Sonido y Acústica, Campus Granados, Universidad de Las Américas, Quito 170125, Ecuador
Ricardo Hernandez-Molina: Laboratorio de Ingeniería Acústica, Campus de Puerto Real, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510 Puerto Real, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 3, 1-19

Abstract: Environmental legislation in Ecuador is advancing with the legitimate aspiration of providing citizens with new standards of quality and environmental health. In the context of environmental noise, these legislative advances are based on the experience accumulated in other countries, which is an advantage that must be managed with caution by incorporating local factors into noise management procedures. This study advances two lines of work. The first is to survey the population about their attitude towards noise from a major road to try to detect local factors in the annoyance and sleep disturbances. The second uses this information to compare noise indicators for the detection and ranking of hot-spots from major roads. The interviewees exhibited a high level of annoyance and sleep disturbance due to noise compared with the results of other studies. Results show that there are small differences in the definition of hot-spots when using WHO’s dose–response curves for L den ≥ 68 dB for and for L night ≥ 58 dB, in comparison with the curves generated in this study (CS). Regarding the application of both dose–response curves (WHO vs. CS) to the estimation of the population at risk of the harmful effect of nighttime traffic noise (HSD), small oscillations are also observed even when L night ≥ 58 dB and L noche ≥ 60 dB are used.

Keywords: dose–response indicators; noise hot-spot; major road traffic noise; noise action plans; noise survey; noise legislation (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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