Road traffic noise exposure assessment based on spatiotemporal data fusion

Abstract

The current static assessment methods for road traffic noise exposure have limitations in representing spatiotemporal variations and only account for the noise exposure of registered residents. To address these issues, this study proposes an assessment method by fusing spatiotemporal noise and population distributions. This approach estimates spatiotemporal noise distributions through real-time noise monitoring data and an update model of noise source intensity calibrated by historical noise monitoring data and road segment speed data. Meanwhile, spatiotemporal population distributions are generated by aggregating standardized spatiotemporal trajectories of users extracted from mobile phone data. The proposed method is applied to evaluate the population exposure to traffic noise in a Chinese city in different hourly periods. The results demonstrate that this method is a quantitative tool for assessing road traffic noise exposure dynamically, providing policymakers with valuable information to locate hotspots of traffic noise over short periods of time.