Agglomeration Roads Lday

Source Lden  Lnight  Lday  Levening  LAeq,16hr  Belfast Agglomeration - Roads An area of a territory that has a population exceeding 100,000 people and a population density equal or greater to 500 people per km2 with a population density that allows it to be considered as an urbanised area.  The Belfast Agglomeration comprises the urban areas of Belfast, Newtownabbey, Carrickfergus, Lisburn, Holywood, Dundonald, Bangor, Carryduff and a small number of small, urbanised areas in North Down. The day-evening-night level indicator for overall annoyance, based upon annual average A-weighted long-term sound over 24 hours. It includes a 5 dB(A) penalty for evening noise (19:00-23:00) and a 10 dB(A) penalty for night-time noise (23:00-07:00) The night level indicator for sleep disturbance, based upon the A-weighted, Leq (equivalent sound level) determined over all the 8-hour night periods (23:00-07:00) of a year The day level, the A-weighted, Leq (equivalent sound level), determined over all the 12-hour day periods (07:00-19:00) of a year The evening level, the A-weighted, Leq (equivalent sound level) determined over all the 4-hour evening periods (19:00-23:00) of a year The equivalent continuous sound level in dB(A) that, over the period 07:00-23:00 hours, contains the same sound energy as the actual fluctuating sound that occurred in that period   The Common Noise Assessment Methods in Europe (CNOSSOS) methodology introduced a significant number of new data requirements and approaches to computing noise emissions to improve the quality of the maps.  Thus round 4 noise mapping results should not be compared to previous rounds