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New Research on Community Reaction to Aircraft Noise in the United States

02.04.2014 | HMMH |

In the U.S., the so-called “Schultz Curve” (a relationship between surveyed noise annoyance and associated noise exposure, formalized now as the FICON curve) has been a primary basis for FAA’s noise and land-use compatibility guidelines. FAA recognizes that the data supporting this dose-response relationship are decades old, and that more recent noise annoyance surveys in other countries produce relationships that can differ significantly from the Schultz Curve. Consequently, the FAA has begun a process of developing and testing an aircraft noise annoyance survey methodology that will eventually be applied to the large-scale U.S. survey at about twenty airports that are served predominantly by jet aircraft.

In order to get the most out of a planned survey of residents living near these representative airports across the US, researchers from HMMH, Westat and the FAA focused their efforts on three communities in order to build a baseline hypothesis. Their findings have produced not only a preferred method for data collection on this issue, but recommendations for data analyses as well.

 

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