Level of Traffic Noise Annoyances Based on Subjective Approaches

Annoyance and confort human in carrying out an activity is not only influenced by internal factors, but also by external factors namely condition of the surrounding environment including the influence of traffic noise. Noise limit that can be accepted by humans have been set in accordance with their designation by State Minister for The Environment of Republic Indonesia. But on the other hand humans have different levels of acceptance. The purpose of this study was to analyze the level of student annoyance to the level of traffic noise. The research method uses a subjective approach based on individual perceptions of a number of students. Noise measurement using a Sound Level Meter (SLM). The results showed that the perception of the level of student annoyance to traffic noise is not disturbed by 30%, rather disturbed 41%, disturbed 8%, simply disturbed 19%, and very disturbed 2%. Subjectively, it was found that variations in individual annoyance of students were annoyance level 1 (not disturbed) at the level 54.7 dB, annoyance level 2 (rather disturbed) at level 61.3 dB, annoyance level 3 (disturbed) at the level 65.4 dB, annoyance level 4 (simply disturbed) at the level 68.6 dB, and annoyance level 5 (very disturbed) at the level 71.1 dB.