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ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE POLLUTION MEASUREMENTS OF TRABZON CITY CENTRE AT BLACK SEA BORDER
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Recently, the effect of noise pollution appeared due to noise increasing from highway transportation, especially, the great majorities of the people living in city centers. Identifying the noise levels have gained great importance in terms of planning of the cities, regions, industries and our being informed how degree the noisy pollution have influenced our daily life. Development plans performed in our country have been carried out without taking into consideration the factor of noise pollution. One of the biggest reasons of it has also resulted from not being available data, adequate and healthy. Therefore, with this study carried out, it has been attempted to determine how degree the people have been influenced from the noise. On the main streets and arteries in Centrum of Trabzon, making noise measurement for totally 100 spots, some charts showing the noisy levels in the city were prepared. It has been found that, on all spots, where the noise measurements were performed, limit values were exceeded, and the noisy levels had reached the size threatening the human health. In this study, it has been suggested that the results obtained were harmful regarding to human health and the measures to be taken were briefly indicated.
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