The graphs illustrate the impact of noise on European citizens in urban and rural areas in the daytime and in the nightime. The data is presented at the year of 2007.
The main distraction factor is traffic, which dominates in both cities and in the coutryside. The noises from railways are shown as the second highest point. Airports and planes are producing less amount of sound pollution
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Finally
, the factory sites have the lowest percentages.
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To begin
with, the city population suffers most from noises produced by automobiles, which were mentioned by 64% of people as a daylight distraction factor and by 48% of respondents as a sleep time distractor. Linking Words
Moreover
, the share of trains is significantly lower, presented at 10% and 8% in daytime and nighttime respectively. The proportion of aircrafts in even lower but comparable with railway noises, and industry is the obvious minority, not exceeding 1% at any time of the day.
The people living outside the city have distraction sources that look similar to the urban ones. The cars have the most significant value of respondents suffering from them, which is 34% when the sun is up, and 10% less when the sun is down. Linking Words
Thus
, the car sound pollution levels in the countyside are almost twice as lower, as inside the town. As for the railways, airports and factory sites, they have the impact on the rural residents almost as low as on the urban ones.Linking Words