Aviation Noise Impacts: State of the Science

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• Creators:
  Basner, Mathias ; Clark, Charlotte ; Hansell, Anna ; Hileman, James ; Janssen, Sabine ; Shepherd, Kevin P. ; Sparrow, Victor W.
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment ; University of Pennsylvania
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Environment and Energy
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Aircraft noise
  • Annoyance
  • Children
  • Communities
  • Health
  • Mathematical prediction
  • Measurement
  • Sleep Aircraft
  • noise
  • performance
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  nah.NAH_104_16
• Resource Type:
  Journal Article
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment ; Pennsylvania State University
• Abstract:
  Noise is defined as “unwanted sound.” Aircraft noise is one, if not the most detrimental environmental effect of aviation. It can cause community annoyance, disrupt sleep, adversely affect academic performance of children, and could increase the risk for cardiovascular disease of people living in the vicinity of airports. In some airports, noise constrains air traffic growth. This consensus paper was prepared by the Impacts of Science Group of the Committee for Aviation Environmental Protection of the International Civil Aviation Organization and summarizes the state of the science of noise effects research in the areas of noise measurement and prediction, community annoyance, children’s learning, sleep disturbance, and health. It also briefly discusses civilian supersonic aircraft as a future source of aviation noise.
• Content Notes:
  This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  13-C-AJFE-UPenn-01, 02;13-C-AJFE-PSU-01, 03, 05, 13, 15, 20, 21,
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/50406/dot_50406_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 134.88 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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