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Percentage of population in urban areas exposed to road noise Lden ≥ 55 dB
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55 dB Lden is the EU threshold for excess exposure defined in the Environmental Noise Directive. It indicates an annual average level during the day, evening and night; dB=decibel.
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- Reported data on noise exposure covered by Directive 2002/49/EC, European Environment Agency (EEA)
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Hungary
- Ireland
- Italy
- Latvia
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malta
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
2017
Exposure numbers (total and percentage) to Lden road noise exposure inside agglomerations per country (2012), including deliveries done until 31/03/2017.
"Graph of the percentage of people exposed to Lden road noise at country level, indicating the number of agglomerations included in the mean per country.
Coverage:EU28 (GR not included) mean values included".
Extraction of the Aggl_Road_Summary spreadsheet: https://forum.eionet.europa.eu/etc-acm-consortium/library/subvention-2016/task-deliveries-ap2016/task-11112-noise-data-dissemination-through-noise/b.-final-drafts-approval-eea/subtask-2.-noise-data-eea-data-service/end_df4_df8_results_2012_160415_final