TRENDS IN ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE

摘要

Given that noise pollution should be a central issue for the both the 'sustainable development' and 'integrated transport' debates, it is perhaps surprising that the issue has only recently moved onto the strategic agenda. However, as this paper will show, there is a lack of data and information available to inform a strategic debate on noise pollution in the UK. This largely results from our short term, local based, and problem solving approach to most environmental noise issues. However whilst many noise problems are of a local nature, the most predominant noise sources are not. Transportation noise in particular is a long-term national, European and International issue closely bound up with the economic and social infrastructure. In this paper the noise sources discussed have been restricted to transportation noise (road, rail, air), with some mention of industrial/construction noise and neighbour noise.