Autotransporto triukšmo poveikis gyventojų sveikatai

Abstract

Noise is by-product of technical progress, technical development, automation, mechanization and transport. It disturbs people to work, to have arrest, reduces labour productivity and negatively affects nervous system. Noise is caused by trains and trolleybuses hum and whoosh, planes and other industrial enterprises, as well as construction techniques rumble and noise, even noise of various household equipments. But still the main noise source, not just in cities but also in villages, is a car. It causes about 80 per cent of all noise. In European Transport, Environment and Health Charter (1999) is defined that traffic caused noise disturbs sleep, burdens communications and influences learning.