A glance at the bar charts provided illustrate how many individuals living in urban, and rural areas of Europe were affected by four different means of noise (traffic, train, aircraft, and industry) in the daytime and night in 2007.
Overall, it can be clear that both in cities and rural areas, traffic was the most noise-creating sector in the daytime. However, in rural areas, there was no one who would be affected by the industry sector.
Being the highest contributor to the locals’ lives in daylight, traffic showed that there were 64 million people who were concerned about this type of noise in cities. Regarding rural areas during the daytime, there were approximately two times less than in cities. In terms of transport means, a number of people who were impacted by trains were almost the same in days and nights for both areas: 10 million people living in cities and 8 million people from rural communities. Meanwhile, at night, a number of individuals was nearly the same as in daylight, showing 8 million in cities and 6 million in rural areas, respectively.
During the night, there were 48 million people affected by the traffic sector in urban zones, which was two times higher than in rural regions. One more type of transport that influenced the lives of people in both areas were airships. Being reported that in cities there were 4 million people who were concerned about noise from aircraft, and for rural communities it was twice as many as in cities. It was only for daytime, as at night the number remained the same at 1 million for urban and rural communities. In terms of industry, the proportion of individuals living in cities who were impacted by this sector was 1 million in the day, and at night it was half of that.