The problem persists equally even in areas where huge resources are spent on regulating, assessing and reducing noise sources or on creating noise barriers. For example, huge efforts are made to reduce traffic noise at the source.

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In fact, today's cars are much quieter than those produced 10 years ago, but traffic volumes have grown so much that the effect of that effort is being cancelled out and the level of unpleasant noise is increasing.

The production of quieter cars may alleviate the problem for a while, but it will never eliminate it. Noise measurement and monitoring are needed to achieve and maintain environmental noise levels in defined areas and under different conditions, with the ultimate goal of protecting the health and well-being of the population.