Effect of traffic noise and relaxations sounds on pedestrian walking speed

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62690094%3A18450%2F18%3A50014366" target="_blank" >RIV/62690094:18450/18:50014366 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/4/752" target="_blank" >http://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/4/752</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15040752" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijerph15040752</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effect of traffic noise and relaxations sounds on pedestrian walking speed

Original language description

Exposure to noise in everyday urban life is considered to be an environmental stressor. A specific outcome of the reaction from environmental stress is a fast pace of life that also includes a faster pedestrian walking speed. The present study examined an effect of listening to annoying acoustical stimuli (traffic noise) compared to relaxation sounds (forest birdsong) on walking speed in a real outdoor urban environment. The participants (N=83) walked along an urban route of 1.8 km. They listened to traffic noise, forest birdsong, or they walked without listening to any acoustical stimuli in the control condition. The results showed that participants listening to traffic noise walked significantly faster on the route than participants listening to forest birdsong sounds and participants in the control condition. Participants who listened to forest birdsong walked slightly faster than those under control condition; however, this difference was not significant. Analysis of the walk experience showed that participants who listened to forest birdsong during the walk liked the route more than those who listened to traffic sounds. The study demonstrated that exposure to traffic noise led to an immediate increase in walking speed.The study also documented the positive effect of listening to various kinds of relaxation sounds while walking in an outdoor environment with traffic noise.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50102 - Psychology, special (including therapy for learning, speech, hearing, visual and other physical and mental disabilities);

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

International journal of environmental research and public health

ISSN

1661-7827

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

1-13

UT code for WoS article

000434868800191

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85045422158