title: Testing of the European Union exposure-response relationships and annoyance equivalents model for annoyance due to transportation noises: The need of revised exposure-response relationships and annoyance equivalents model.
abstract: An in situ survey was performed in 8 French cities in 2012 to study the annoyance due to combined transportation noises. As the European Commission recommends to use the exposure-response relationships suggested by Miedema and Oudshoorn [Environmental Health Perspective, 2001] to predict annoyance due to single transportation noise, these exposure-response relationships were tested using the annoyance due to each transportation noise measured during the French survey. These relationships only enabled a good prediction in terms of the percentages of people highly annoyed by road traffic noise. For the percentages of people annoyed and a little annoyed by road traffic noise, the quality of prediction is weak. For aircraft and railway noises, prediction of annoyance is not satisfactory either. As a consequence, the annoyance equivalents model of Miedema [The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2004], based on these exposure-response relationships did not enable a good prediction of annoyance due to combined transportation noises. Local exposure-response relationships were derived, following the whole computation suggested by Miedema and Oudshoorn [Environmental Health Perspective, 2001]. They led to a better calculation of annoyance due to each transportation noise in the French cities. A new version of the annoyance equivalents model was proposed using these new exposure-response relationships. This model enabled a better prediction of the total annoyance due to the combined transportation noises. These results encourage therefore to improve the annoyance prediction for noise in isolation with local or revised exposure-response relationships, which will also contribute to improve annoyance modeling for combined noises. With this aim in mind, a methodology is proposed to consider noise sensitivity in exposure-response relationships and in the annoyance equivalents model. The results showed that taking into account such variable did not enable to enhance both exposure-response relationships and the annoyance equivalents model.
authors.affiliation: CEREMA, Direction Territoriale Île-de-France, 21-23 rue Miollis, 75732 Paris Cedex 15, France; Univ Lyon, ENTPE, Laboratoire Génie Civil et Bâtiment, 3 rue Maurice Audin, F-69518 Vaulx-en-Velin, France.
authors.forename: Laure-Anne
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Gille
authors.affiliation: Univ Lyon, ENTPE, Laboratoire Génie Civil et Bâtiment, 3 rue Maurice Audin, F-69518 Vaulx-en-Velin, France. Electronic address: catherine.marquisfavre@entpe.fr.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marquis-Favre
authors.affiliation: Ministry of Environment, Energy and Sea, Tour Sequoïa, 92055 La Défense Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Morel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000401:Aircraft; D001336:Automobiles; D002947:Cities; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005062:European Union; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009624:Noise, Transportation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D011890:Railroads; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Annoyance equivalents model; Combined noises; Exposure-response relationship; Multilevel regression; Noise annoyance; Transportation noise