title: Can weekly noise levels of urban road traffic, as predominant noise source, estimate annual ones?
abstract: The effects of noise pollution on human quality of life and health were recognised by the World Health Organisation a long time ago. There is a crucial dilemma for the study of urban noise when one is looking for proven methodologies that can allow, on the one hand, an increase in the quality of predictions, and on the other hand, saving resources in the spatial and temporal sampling. The temporal structure of urban noise is studied in this work from a different point of view. This methodology, based on Fourier analysis, is applied to several measurements of urban noise, mainly from road traffic and one-week long, carried out in two cities located on different continents and with different sociological life styles (Cáceres, Spain and Talca, Chile). Its capacity to predict annual noise levels from weekly measurements is studied. The relation between this methodology and the categorisation method is also analysed.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Extremadura, Escuela Politécnica, Avenida Universidad s/n, Cáceres, 10003, Spain.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Prieto Gajardo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Extremadura, Escuela Politécnica, Avenida Universidad s/n, Cáceres, 10003, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan Miguel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Barrigón Morillas
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, 5 Poniente 1670, 3460000 Talca, Chile.
authors.forename: Guillermo
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rey Gozalo
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Extremadura, Escuela Politécnica, Avenida Universidad s/n, Cáceres, 10003, Spain.
authors.forename: Rosendo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vílchez-Gómez