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Coastal Zones 2016

May 16-18, 2016

Volume 4, Issue 1(Suppl)

Oceanography 2016

ISSN:2332-2632, OCN an open access journal

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May 16-18, 2016 Osaka, Japan

Coastal Zones

International Conference on

Characterization And Evaluation Of Noise Pollution In A Tourist Coastal Town

J C Fortes, R Sánchez

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J P Bolivar

University of Huelva, Spain

here are also many studies on noise pollution in road traffic of big cities conducted in the last thirty years demonstrating

that traffic is the main source of noise in the urban environments. Thus, the ambient noise levels have increased since the

1980s mainly due to increased traffic. Thus more than 50 percent of the European population is exposed to noise levels (Leq)

over 55 dBA due to road transport. The impact that noise has on the health of people is widely known from the large number

of studies that have been conducted in different fields of medicine. But the specific case of coastal tourist towns has been very

little studied. They have significant increases in the volume of traffic during the summer compared to the winter (one order of

magnitude in many cases), which results in a dramatic increase in noise. This increased noise will produce a degradation of the

acoustic environment during the summer season, which is the opposite of what people are looking for during their holidays.

The A-5052 road is the main source of noise pollution in El Portil, generating during a summer 24 h period a continuous

equivalent level about 4–5 dBA higher than in winter. 2) The background levels existing during the night periods reach 37 dBA,

corresponding to a period of 5 hours (1:00 to 6:00 h), while in summer they reach 40 dBA for a duration of only 1 hour (3:30

to 4:30 h). 3) While on winter nights (1:00 to 6:00 h) there is only one source of noise, corresponding to the background noise,

on summer nights three sources of noise were identified: background noise, the recreational activities of the tourists, and traffic

noise from the road. 4) In both winter and summer, noisy activities begin at 5:00 h and last until 8:00 am, dominated by traffic

for the beginning of the working day.

J C Fortes et al., Oceanography 2016, 4:1(Suppl)