Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud

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Urban noise is a common problem, and the vast majority of it is created by motor vehicles. Noise is far too often dismissed as a minor nuisance, rather than the legitimate health issue that it is.

The book "Curbing Traffic" has a chapter about the health impacts of noise pollution. I explore the research in the book, and visit Delft, the city that is highlighted in the book as being a shining example of what can happen when noise pollution is taken seriously.

This video explores the problem that farting cars, farting motorcycles, and farting mopeds create in our cities.

Curbing Traffic
Melissa & Chris Bruntlett
http://www.modacitylife.com/curbing-t...

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Guidelines for Community Noise
World Health Organization
https://www.who.int/docstore/peh/nois...

Environmental noise
European Environment Agency
https://www.eea.europa.eu/airs/2018/e...

Burden of disease from environmental noise
Quantification of healthy life years lost in Europe
https://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimp...

Calculate decibel level changes
Sengpiel Audio
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculat...

Cairo ranked second noisiest city in the world
https://egyptindependent.com/cairo-ra....

Getting Around in Egypt #4: Cairo by Taxi
Chris Naunton (YouTube/CC BY)
   • Видео  

NOISE LEVELS AND THE SOURCES OF NOISE POLLUTION IN KARACHI
Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
https://jpma.org.pk/article-details/5583

Karachi in 5 minutes
Kashan Ilyas (YouTube/CC BY)
   • Karachi in 5 minutes  

The Adverse Effects of Environmental Noise Exposure on Oxidative Stress and Cardiovascular Risk
Antioxid Redox Signal
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

The Environmental Quality of City Streets: The Residents' Viewpoint
Journal of the American Institute of Planners (Volume 38, 1972 - Issue 2)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...
https://books.google.nl/books?id=11Jt...

Weg Geluidhinder
https://www.infomil.nl/vaste-onderdel...

Phoenixstraat in Delft, 2004
By M.Minderhoud - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Delft Markt 1970s
Serc
http://fotos.serc.nl/zuid-holland/del...
http://fotos.serc.nl/zuid-holland/del...


Results of the King Street Transit Pilot
https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2...

Experimental Study for Estimating Capacity of Cycle Lanes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

NACTO - Designing to Move People
https://nacto.org/publication/transit...

Amsterdam Geluidskaart (Noise Map)
https://maps.amsterdam.nl/geluid/

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Chapters

0:00 Intro
0:13 Cities are loud
0:36 The noise problem
1:33 Health implications of noise
2:43 How drivers create noise
3:21 Urban noise is not inevitable
4:08 Travel to Delft
4:51 Delft is really quiet
6:01 Reducing car traffic
7:02 Getting away from the noise
7:37 How cars create noise
8:12 Slow the cars
8:33 Quiet asphalt
9:24 Soundproofing
9:39 Delft summary & returning to Amsterdam
10:09 Measuring bicycle noise
11:05 Measuring car noise
11:20 Measuring moped noise
12:00 Measuring motorcycle noise
13:03 Electric vehicles
14:21 Moving people quietly
15:19 Why do we allow this?
15:47 What Amsterdam does about noise
16:17 Final thoughts
16:35 Patreon shout-out
16:47 Outro