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Citizens’ Perceptions of Environmental Noise - A Case Study

    Andrea Pődör, Dorina Borsföldi-Nagy

GI_Forum 2018, Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 126-134, 2018/06/22

Journal for Geographic Information Science

doi: 10.1553/giscience2018_01_s126

doi: 10.1553/giscience2018_01_s126


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doi:10.1553/giscience2018_01_s126



doi:10.1553/giscience2018_01_s126

Abstract

In this study, the authors used an online survey to investigate the perception of noise pollution by the citizens of Szombathely in Hungary. The datasets were compared to field measurements taken with a sound-level meter, and a smartphone using a free noise-measurement app. On the whole, the participants identified the main roads and transport hubs as the most polluted areas, and parks and green spaces as the least polluted ones. Our measurements confirm that citizens are well aware of noise pollution in the city, although in some cases we found slight differences between their subjective perceptions and the actuality.

Keywords: noise mapping, smartphone noise measurement, digital sketch maps