Road Traffic Articles & Analysis
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The association may be partly explained by reductions in traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) near green areas. Approximately half of the global population live in cities, and it is projected that by 2030, three of every five persons (60%) will live in urban areas worldwide. ...
Aircraft noise tends to be more annoying and disruptive to sleep than road and rail traffic noise, and long-term night-time exposure to aircraft noise is implicated in cardiovascular disease (such as heart attacks and strokes) more than day-time exposure to aircraft noise. ...
One study linked hospital admissions for respiratory diseases and pneumonia for young children (less than 10 years old) with exposure to road traffic noise, and another found that girls with asthma were prone to asthma attacks if they had been annoyed by night-time noise. ...
New research from the EU-funded HYENA (Hypertension and Exposure to Noise near Airports) Study1 shows that living near an airport increases your risk of hypertension. Traffic noise from roads, airports and railways is a major environmental problem and is increasingly recognised as a serious threat to public health by the World Health Organisation2. Recent ...