Over 500,000 children’s reading skills impaired by transport noise in Europe

On 12/12/2024, the "European Environment Agency" issued an update regarding "Over 500,000 children’s reading skills impaired by transport noise in Europe". The agency's briefing highlights that over half a million European children suffer from impaired reading ability and almost 60,000 have behavioural difficulties due to exposure to harmful long-term noise from road, rail, and air transport. This is attributed to more than 20% of Europeans being exposed to detrimental levels of transport noise.