Acoustic evaluation of leisure events in two mediterranean cities

This paper is about this kind of noise in two Mediterranean cities with very different characteristics. In both of them, the most important leisure events that take place along a year have been measured. Binaural measurements have been taken to characterize them from the acoustic point of view and to evaluate the acoustic pollution. Moreover, the potential number of affected residents has been calculated in order to estimate how many people could suffer any annoyance because of this kind of noise. Finally, a comparison of the sound level measured and the potential number of disturbed residents in each leisure event in both cities has been carried out, considering the type of city as another variable in the noise produced by the mentioned leisure events.