title: Possible relation of noise levels in streets to the population of the municipalities in which they are located.
abstract: 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.
authors: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Escuela Politécnica, Universidad de Extremadura, 10003 Cáceres, Spain. barrigon@unex.es
authors: J Miguel
authors: JM
authors: Barrigón
authors: Valentín Gómez
authors: VG
authors: Escobar
authors: Guillermo Rey
authors: GR
authors: Gozalo
authors: Rosendo
authors: R
authors: Vílchez-Gómez
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011156:Population Density; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013030:Spain; D014505:Urban Population