TY - JOUR
T1 - Noise at the time of COVID 19
T2 - The impact in some areas in Rome and Milan, Italy
AU - Pagès, Rosa Maria Alsina
AU - Alías, Francesc
AU - Bellucci, Patrizia
AU - Cartolano, Pier Paolo
AU - Coppa, Ilaria
AU - Peruzzi, Laura
AU - Bisceglie, Alessandro
AU - Zambon, Giovanni
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 R. M. Alsina Pagès et al., published by De Gruyter.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Italy at the end of January 2020, when the first positive cases for the virus were identified. At the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all Italian regions and on 10 March 2020 the lockdown phase began, limiting the movement of people and prohibiting almost all commercial activities, businesses and non-essential industries. As a result, millions of people were forced to stay at home, causing a drastic drop in traffic volume, which significantly changed the acoustic environment and air quality of cities. On 4 May 2020, the lockdown was partially lifted and activities were progressively reopened. Therefore, traffic gradually started to increase and, consequently, the noise emitted by motor vehicles. This behaviour was confirmed by the data collected by the DYNAMAP system, an automatic platform developed within the LIFE DYNAMAP project, providing real time traffic noise maps in terms of sound pressure levels and impacts at receivers (people and dwellings exposed to noise level bands). In this paper traffic and non-traffic-related noise events in the cities of Rome and Milan from March to May 2020 are analysed and compared to the corresponding values in 2019 to evaluate the effects of the lockdown period.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed in Italy at the end of January 2020, when the first positive cases for the virus were identified. At the beginning of March, the virus had spread to all Italian regions and on 10 March 2020 the lockdown phase began, limiting the movement of people and prohibiting almost all commercial activities, businesses and non-essential industries. As a result, millions of people were forced to stay at home, causing a drastic drop in traffic volume, which significantly changed the acoustic environment and air quality of cities. On 4 May 2020, the lockdown was partially lifted and activities were progressively reopened. Therefore, traffic gradually started to increase and, consequently, the noise emitted by motor vehicles. This behaviour was confirmed by the data collected by the DYNAMAP system, an automatic platform developed within the LIFE DYNAMAP project, providing real time traffic noise maps in terms of sound pressure levels and impacts at receivers (people and dwellings exposed to noise level bands). In this paper traffic and non-traffic-related noise events in the cities of Rome and Milan from March to May 2020 are analysed and compared to the corresponding values in 2019 to evaluate the effects of the lockdown period.
KW - Change in traffic noise during Covid-19
KW - Effects of the pandemic on noise
KW - Urban ad suburban noise during pandemic
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85097659710&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1515/noise-2020-0021
DO - 10.1515/noise-2020-0021
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097659710
SN - 2084-879X
VL - 7
SP - 248
EP - 264
JO - Noise Mapping
JF - Noise Mapping
IS - 1
ER -
