Exploring the relationships between percent highly annoyed and residents’ judgments about the airport

08.09.2015 | HMMH |

Self-reported annoyance ratings by community members surrounding airports have traditionally been the main factor influencing aviation/airport noise policies. These plots show considerable scatter and an associated degree of uncertainty. Because of this, HMMH has produced reliable ways to enhance the collection and analysis of data that produce “dose-response” curves through both qualitative and quantitative methods.

This scatter is often hypothesized to arise from personal, community and other variables not accounted for by the quantitative metric and raises questions about how the curves should best be used for policy formulation. This paper tests some of the relationships of recently surveyed reports of high annoyance with a few personal variables not often examined: degree of trust in airport officials to work fairly with the community; belief that residents’ feelings about noise are or not understood by airport officials; judged importance of the airport to the local area; resident reported sensitivity to noise of all kinds

Including analyses of several sets of representative data, discussion on the value of the Schultz curve, and recommendations for future practices, you may discover that the psychology of effective data collection is just as important as the data you collect.

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