0000000000279453
AUTHOR
Sophie Pujol
Indoor noise exposure assessment of primary school children living in a french urban area
International audience; The recent development of powerful noise mapping softwares allows to assess the exposure to environmental noise at the scale of an agglomeration. However noise levels inside dwellings are still unknown at such scales. To evaluate indoor noise levels and to investigate the factors which determine them, an eight-day noise measurement campaign was carried out in 50 childrens home. These children were randomly chosen among 8 or 9-year-old pupils attending the public primary schools of Besançon (France). Microphones were placed in the childs bedroom, outdoor in front of the bedrooms facade, and in the main room. Equivalent sound pressure levels (LAeq) were calculated d…
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