A glance at the bar charts provided illustrates how many individuals living in urban and rural areas of Europe were affected by four different means of noise (traffic, train, aircraft, 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 daytimes. 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 the rural areas during the daytime, there were approximately two times less than in cities. In terms of transport means, the 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 who were affected by traffic sector in urban zones, which was two times higher than in rural regions. One more type of transport that influenced on the lives of people of both areas were airships. Being reported that in cities there were 4 million people who were concerned about noise from aircrafts, and for the rural communities it was twice less than in cities. It was only for daytimes 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 days and at nights it was the half of that.