Proceedings of the workshop on human response to aviation noise in protected natural areas, October 28-29, 2008

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• Creators:
  Rapoza, Amanda ; Lee, Cynthia S. Y. ; Klauber, Adam F.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Airport noise
  • Noise control
  • Public opinion
  • National parks
  • Federal laws
  • Noise
  • Aviation
  • Dose-response
  • ATMP
  • Workshop
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• Resource Type:
  Proceedings
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Abstract:
  According to Section 808 of the National Parks Air Tour Management Act of 2000, any methodology ; adopted by a Federal agency to assess air tour noise in any unit of the national park system shall be ; based on reasonable scientific methods. Therefore, the FAA and NPS share a mutual interest to develop ; scientifically defensible methodology to quantitatively assess noise impacts from aviation in National ; Parks. Although the agencies could pursue wholly independent research programs, public investment in ; research will realize the highest return if the FAA and NPS mutually develop a prioritized list of research ; topics and a coordinated strategy for stimulating this research. ; To date, several studies have been funded by these agencies which strive to define the relationship ; between aircraft noise “dose” and an associated human response (dose-response) gathered from park ; visitor surveys.1, 2, 3, 4 Following the example of residential dose-response relationships, the analyses of ; the data from the park visitor studies focused on evaluating relatively simple functional forms of noise ; doses and mediating variables as predictors of visitor responses in surveys. However, research results ; suggest that a simple model does not adequately characterize human responses to noise in protected ; natural and cultural areas, such as National Parks. In addition to visitor responses to noise as measured ; by annoyance or acceptability, research is needed to investigate physiological responses to noise events ; and the degree to which noise degrades opportunities to perceive the sounds of the park.
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• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9044/dot_9044_DS1.pdf
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