Application of land use regression modelling to assess the spatial distribution of road traffic noise in three European cities

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 97-105

  Aguilera, Inmaculada ^a,b   Foraster, Maria ^c,d   Basagaña, Xavier ^c,d   Corradi, Elisabetta ^a,b   Deltell, Alexandre ^e   Morelli, Xavier ^f,g   Phuleria, Harish C ^a,b,h   Ragettli, Martina S ^a,b   Rivera, Marcela ^b   Thomasson, Alexandre ⁱ   Slama, Rémy ^f,g   Künzli, Nino ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUT ALBERT BONNIOT   (France)

^g UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^h INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

ⁱ Histocompatibility Laboratory   (France)

Author keywords

Land use regression models; Noise exposure; Noise propagation models; Traffic noise

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; CAR; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FRANCE; HUMAN; NOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWITZERLAND;

AUTOMOBILES; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NOISE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84927174153     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2014.61     Document Type: Article

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