Railway Noise Levels in Agglomerations with Acoustic Metrics

A dataset from OpenDataNI, last updated on 2026-03-18, containing railway noise measurements. The data includes acoustic metrics such as Lden, Lnight, Lday, Levening, and LAeq values for different time periods. It is available in multiple geospatial and tabular formats including SHP, GEOJSON, KML, and CSV.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term noise exposure (Lden) for population health studies.
• Assessing night-time noise levels (Lnight) for sleep disturbance research.
• Comparing daytime (Lday) and evening (Levening) noise patterns for traffic management.
• Calculating equivalent continuous sound levels (LAeq) for specific operational periods.

Strengths

• Data is available in multiple geospatial formats (SHP, GEOJSON, KML) for integration with GIS.
• Includes several standardized acoustic metrics (Lden, Lnight, Lday, Levening, LAeq) for detailed analysis.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, facilitating open use and redistribution.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 11:22:40.525305; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely covers agglomerations in the UK, based on the platform 'uk_data'.