Nighttime transportation noise
dB Lnight
Outdoor sound from roads, trains, and aircraft at the home, usually as night-time Lnight. Fine particles at the same address are a different reading.
The papers estimate A-weighted night levels outside the façade, or distance to a road, rail line, or airport contour. Road, rail, and aircraft are the usual sources. The number is sound. Fine particles at the same address are air, not noise.
Also called traffic noise, aircraft noise, railway noise, environmental noise.
Connected relationships
Meta-analysis · Low
Nighttime transportation noise→Major cardiovascular events
Higher Nighttime transportation noise increases Major cardiovascular events.
In a 2023 dose-response meta-analysis of 23 cohort papers and 18.5 million adults, mostly in Europe, each extra 10 dB of modelled road-traffic noise (as Lden) sat with a 2 percent higher risk of incident cardiovascular disease (RR 1.020, 1.006 to 1.035). Nobody randomized the street.
Meta-analysis · Low
Nighttime transportation noise→Sleep duration and regularity
Higher Nighttime transportation noise decreases Sleep duration and regularity.
In a 2022 update of the WHO sleep review, each extra 10 dB of night-time road, rail, or aircraft noise raised the odds of being highly sleep disturbed about two- to three-fold when the question named the noise, across 36 observational studies and 173,160 responses. Nobody randomized the street.
Sources
- X Fu et al. (2023). Long-Term Exposure to Traffic Noise and Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Diseases: a Systematic Review and Dose-Response Meta-Analysis.
- G Hao et al. (2022). Associations of road traffic noise with cardiovascular diseases and mortality: Longitudinal results from UK Biobank and meta-analysis.
- W Babisch et al. (2008). Road traffic noise and cardiovascular risk.
- MG Smith et al. (2022). Environmental Noise and Effects on Sleep: An Update to the WHO Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
- M Schubert et al. (2023). Traffic-Related High Sleep Disturbance in the LIFE-Adult Cohort Study: A Comparison to the WHO Exposure-Response-Curves.
- S Perron et al. (2017). Sleep Disturbance from Road Traffic, Railways, Airplanes and from Total Environmental Noise Levels in Montreal.
- S Perron et al. (2012). Review of the effect of aircraft noise on sleep disturbance in adults.
- S Pirrera et al. (2010). Nocturnal road traffic noise: A review on its assessment and consequences on sleep and health.