Effects and cost of leisure night noise on residents' sleep: a protocol for an interdisciplinary experiment in Turin

Nocturnal recreational noise, while representing a recurring cause of discontent and conflict with the local administration (it is the first cause of noise related citizens’s complain) remains a little-studied phenomenon both from the point of view: of the conditions generating discomfort (exposure, characteristics of the noise, individual response), of the consequences (quality of sleep, damage to health, direct and indirect economic costs, policy tools). The paper intends to develop a protocol of research based on the interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers working in different fields such as neurosciences, acustical physics, economics, statistics and territorial sciences. A real-world experiment by measuring recreational noise and its effects on the quality of sleep, directly in the homes and neighborhood where residents live