The true cost of road traffic noise in Portugal

• Tipo: Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional
• Data: 2009

Autores

Cecília Rocha (Autor) FEUP; António Carvalho (Autor) FEUP

Ata de Conferência Internacional

Título: 38th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2009, INTER-NOISE 2009

Páginas: 2150-2160

38th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering 2009, INTER-NOISE 2009

Ottawa, ON, 23 August 2009 through 26 August 2009

Indexação

Scopus - 1 Citação

Classificação Científica

FOS: Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias > Engenharia civil

CORDIS: Ciências Físicas > Física > Acústica

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-008-7KM

Abstract (EN): This paper presents some results of the ongoing investigation concerning the economical evaluation of road traffic noise. As the majority of the European countries, Portugal has part of its 10 million citizens exposed to excessive noise levels, according to the WHO suggested values. Considering the relevance of this subject and the constant increase in road traffic volume, it was recognized the importance of an economical valuation of this excessive noise levels, referred to three cost categories: infrastructure (increase in the infrastructure cost due to the constructions of noise mitigation measures), noise externalities (connected to social, real estate and health noise related costs) and real estate income loss (allied to the inability for construction in available land for construction based on excessive noise and the consequent reduction of the patrimonial value). This paper illustrates some of the investigation results for specific municipalities regarded as representative of the municipalities' majority according to its territorial, economical and urban planning characteristics.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 11