Examining nocturnal railway noise and aircraft noise in the field: Sleep, psychomotor performance, and annoyance

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 424, Issue , 2012, Pages 48-56

  Elmenhorst, Eva Maria ^a   Pennig, Sibylle ^a   Rolny, Vinzent ^a   Quehl, Julia ^a   Mueller, Uwe ^a   Maaß, Hartmut ^a   Basner, Mathias ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aircraft noise; Annoyance; Awakening reaction; PVT; Railway noise; Sleep

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT NOISE; ANNOYANCE; AWAKENING REACTION; PVT; RAILWAY NOISE; SLEEP;

LOGISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RAILROADS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP RESEARCH; SURVEYS;

NOISE POLLUTION;

AIRCRAFT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FIELD SURVEY; NOISE POLLUTION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RAILWAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SLEEP; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ADULT; AGED; AIRCRAFT NOISE; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NIGHT; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAILWAY NOISE; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGE; WAKEFULNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AIRCRAFT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; IRRITABLE MOOD; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAILROADS; SLEEP; SLEEP STAGES; YOUNG ADULT;

BONN; COLOGNE; GERMANY; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 84859747696     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.02.024     Document Type: Article

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