Possible relation of noise levels in streets to the population of the municipalities in which they are located.
A preview of the results of applying a categorization method to twenty towns with populations between 2200 and 700 000 inhabitants and areas between 0.57 km(2) and 59 km(2) is presented. This represents a significant expansion of the population size and area of urban sites studied by this method, with variations of two to three orders of magnitude, including the fourth most populous town in Spain. It is found that there is a relationship between urban noise and inhabitants, and also between urban noise and inhabited area, reflecting the urban structure defined in the strata of the categorization method.
Barrigón
J Miguel
JM
Departamento de Física Aplicada, Escuela Politécnica, Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain. barrigon@unex.es
Escobar
Valentín Gómez
VG
Gozalo
Guillermo Rey
GR
Vílchez-Gómez
Rosendo
R
D002947:Cities; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011156:Population Density; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013030:Spain; D014505:Urban Population