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Identification of noise sources and their ranking is a crucial part of any noise abatement program. This is a particularly difficult task when a complex source, such as a seaport, is considered. COVID-19 epidemic has had a significant impact on environmental noise related to road, rail, air and ship traffic and provided a unique opportunity to observe immediate noise reduction. In order to identify the noise sources, whose reduction was most effective in reducing noise from the port area, this study compared and quantified noise emissions between the historical and epidemic periods. Environmental noise measurements from three noise monitoring stations at the port boundary were analysed. In addition, noise emissions from ship, road, rail and industry as well as meteorological data in the historical pre - COVID-19 (January 2018-February 2020) and COVID-19 (April 2020) period were analysed in detail. The characteristics of the noise sources mentioned, geographical data and noise measurements were used to develop and validate a noise model of the port area, which was used to calculate noise contour maps. Our results show that the reduction in noise levels observed at all monitoring sta

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Author

Luka Čurović; Sonja Jeram; Jure Murovec; Tadej Novaković; Klara Rupnik; Jurij Prezelj

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV; Publons (ISSN 0048-9697)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)