Using smart city tools to evaluate the effectiveness of a low emissions zone in Spain: Madrid central

I Lebrusán, J Toutouh - Smart Cities, 2020 - mdpi.com
Population concentration in cities brings new risks as an increase in pollution, which causes
urban health problems. In order to address this problem, traffic reduction measures are …

Quantitative evaluation approach for English–Catalan translation of soundscape perceptual attributes

M Freixes, F Orga, RM Alsina-Pagès - Applied Acoustics, 2025 - Elsevier
Soundscape research involves the evaluation of acoustic environments using perceptual
attributes such as annoyance, calmness, and vibrancy. The “Soundscape Attributes …

Predictive Modelling of Complex Urban Soundscapes: Enabling an engineering approach to soundscape design

AJ Mitchell - 2022 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
Conventional noise control methods typically limit their focus to the reduction of unwanted
noise, ignoring the benets of positive sounds and struggling to reflect the totality of noise …

Multilevel annoyance modelling of short environmental sound recordings

F Orga, A Mitchell, M Freixes, F Aletta… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The recent development and deployment of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks (WASN)
present new ways to address urban acoustic challenges in a smart city context. A focus on …

Perceptual evaluation of the citizen's acoustic environment from classic noise monitoring

RM Alsina-Pagès, M Freixes, F Orga, M Foraster… - Cities & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Noise is one of the main environmental pollutants and it is becoming a growing public health
concern due to its impact on the quality of life in urban areas. In order to monitor critical …

An approach to frequency selectivity in an urban environment by means of multi-path acoustic channel analysis

P Bergadà, RM Alsina-Pagès - Sensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
The improvement of quality of life in the framework of the smart city paradigm cannot be
limited to a set of objective measures carried out over several critical parameters (eg, noise …

Automating the Production of the Balance Mix in Music Production

N Jillings - 2023 - open-access.bcu.ac.uk
Historically, the junior engineer is an individual who would assist the sound engineer to
produce a mix by performing a number of mixing and pre-processing tasks ahead of the …

Urban environment soundscape evaluation: Milan case study of noise events perceptions by citizens

R Ma Alsina-Pagès, F Orga, M Freixes… - INTER-NOISE and …, 2020 - ingentaconnect.com
As one of the main urban environmental pollutants, noise is becoming a real public health
concern due to its impact on citizen's wellbeing. Real-operation noise monitoring can help …

[PDF][PDF] Citizens' perceptual evaluation of noise events in an urban environment

RM Alsina-Pagès, F Orga, M Freixes, M Foraster - icben.ethz.ch
Noise is one of the main environmental pollutants and represents a public health concern
due to its wide impact, among others, on annoyance and citizens' quality of life. Real-time …

[PDF][PDF] smart cities

I Lebrusán, J Toutouh - Mobility and IoT for the Smart Cities - mdpi.com
Population concentration in cities brings new risks as an increase in pollution, which causes
urban health problems. In order to address this problem, traffic reduction measures are …