It is well understood that noise levels below the hearing damaging criterion cause
annoyance, sleep disturbance, cognitive impairment, physiological stress reactions,
endocrine imbalance, and cardiovascular disorders. Public health policies rely on
quantitative risk assessment to set environmental quality standards and to regulate the noise
exposure that is generated by environmental noise sources in the communities. According to
the European Environmental Noise Directive (END) the member states are currently�…