Examination of Affecting Factors on Community Reactions to Road Traffic Noise

Abstract

This paper focused on the effects of non-acoustic factors on community response, namely annoyance and activity disturbances due to road traffic noise. Most of previous surveys in Japan addressed community response to noise for detached houses rather than that for apartments. However, it is likely that the above-mentioned community response differed by sound insulation performance between detached houses and apartments. Using a social survey conducted in areas facing arterial roads in 2019 and 2020, we applied the micro data to cross-tabulation and logistic regression analysis. Calculating phi coefficient and odds ratio, we discussed the difference by housing types.