An environmental noise study in the industrial, commercial, residential areas and arterial roads in western Bogotá, Colombia

Guevara, Marco Andrés; Guevara, Fredy Alejandro

dc.creator	Guevara, Marco Andrés
dc.creator	Guevara, Fredy Alejandro
dc.date	2018-02-26
dc.identifier	https://hemeroteca.unad.edu.co/index.php/riaa/article/view/2055
dc.identifier	10.22490/21456453.2055
dc.description	Noise pollution as byproduct of development and urban activity is related with a great amount ofeconomic, social and cultural variables, whose importance as stressing, and possible even dangerous,agent in human life has come to be recognized in the last decades. In this case the city of Bogotá is acapital city of Colombia, located in the center of the country. Is the largest city in Colombia and has asurface extension area of 1,580 km2. Bogotá is a very variable city in terms of economic and social levellocation, and use of soils in the city planning. The factors mentioned above makes Bogotá a very complexanalysis system for sound and noise pollution studies. Due the size of the city, in this study the westernarea of the capital district is analyzed through a sound measurements in 7 different selected types ofareas, involving commercial, transportation, industrial, residential and arterial roads. This study allowedto identify the arterial roads as one important source of noise in the city, possibly mainly due to the traffico heavy vehicles inside the city. The max harmful levels of sound reach values of about 85 dB in thementioned locations (Av. Ciudad de Cali, Av. Cll 13 arterial roads and Salitre – El Greco TransmilenioStation).	en-US
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dc.publisher	Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia, UNAD	es-ES
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dc.rights	Derechos de autor 2018 Revista de Investigación Agraria y Ambiental	es-ES
dc.rights	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0	es-ES
dc.source	Revista de Investigación Agraria y Ambiental; Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018); 137 - 144	en-US
dc.source	Revista de Investigación Agraria y Ambiental; Vol. 9 Núm. 1 (2018); 137 - 144	es-ES
dc.source	2145-6453
dc.source	2145-6097
dc.subject	Noise pollution	en-US
dc.subject	environmental noise	en-US
dc.subject	public health	en-US
dc.subject	sound measuring	en-US
dc.subject	environmental policies.	en-US
dc.title	An environmental noise study in the industrial, commercial, residential areas and arterial roads in western Bogotá, Colombia	en-US
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dc.type	Área Ambiental	es-ES