Abstract
The extent of interference with various activities was studied among
populations in areas exposed to noise from aircraft, road traffic,
trains and tramways. When areas with differences in the extent of
general annoyance were compared, similar differences in the extent
of the various activity interferences were found, except for those
due to vibrations. As an example of the differences in the activity
interference pattern, it was found that road traffic noise interfered
significantly less with speech than train noise, whereas both noise
types caused roughly the same interference with rest/sleep. The results
suggest that uniform weighted annoyance scores incorporating various
kinds of activity interference are not valid for all types of environmental
noises. Interference due to vibrations probably has to be treated
separately from that due to noise.
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