Cross-regional comparison of community response to road traffic noise

本文对日本较冷和较暖地区的公寓住宅和独立住宅进行了为期两年的道路交通噪声社会调查，目的是澄清两点。1)房屋类型对噪声干扰影响的差异。2)气候对噪声干扰影响的差异。从公寓住宅的1045个对象中收集了603份回复，从独立住宅的712个对象中收集了494份回复。在剂量-反应关系中，尽管气候条件不同，独立式住宅的Very恼怒率明显大于公寓式住宅。这是因为许多受访者注意到公寓里的邻里噪音，他们可能比那些住在独立住宅里的人更少感到道路交通噪音。但对噪声干扰的影响没有差异。在噪声干扰的通径分析中，气候对两地噪声干扰的直接影响不大。有几个因素对噪音烦恼有强烈的直接影响，它们在公寓和独立住宅中很常见。考虑到剂量-反应关系和通径分析的结果，认为气候对噪声干扰没有影响，迄今为止对独立住宅的调查结果可以应用于公寓住宅。

The social surveys on road traffic noise were carried out for apartment houses and detached houses in colder and warmer areas of Japan for two years in order to clarify two point as follows. 1) The difference of the effect of house type on noise annoyance. 2) The difference of the effect of climate on noise annoyance. 603 responses were collected from 1045 objects in apartment houses and 494 collected from 712 objects in detached houses. It was clear in dose-response relationship that %Very annoyed in detached houses was larger than that in apartment houses in spite of the difference of climate. It's because many respondents noticed neighborhood noises in apartment houses and they might relatively felt road traffic noise less annoyed than those living in detached houses. But there was no difference of the effect to chimate on noise annoyance.In path analysis of noise annoyance, climate had little direct effect on noise annoyance in both areas. Several factors had strong direct effects on noise annoyance and they common to apartment houses and detached houses. It is considered that there is no effect of climate on noise annoyance and the findings in the surveys of detached houses up to the present can be adopted to apartment houses taking account of the results of dose-response relationship and path analysis.