Other benchmarking reports on a European scale classified citiesaccording to various urban forms (Schwarz, 2010) or sustainability indices (The Economist, 2009). In particular, the last report refersto transport variables, which cannot provide a direct assessmentof the noise pollution in these cities. From the viewpoint of sound-scape, studies on a European context are rare and there is the needto establish a common protocol for soundscape exposure assess-ment (Lercher and Schulte-fortkamp, 2015). Lastly, in the EuropeanGreen Capital Award (European Comission, 2014), the quality of theacoustic environment was taken into consideration using the expo-sure of people above or below certain noise bands whenever theseresults were available.