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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America / Volume 129 / Issue 4 / NOISE: ITS EFFECTS AND CONTROL [50]

Trends in aircraft noise annoyance: The role of study and sample characteristics

J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 129, Issue 4, pp. 1953-1962 (2011); (10 pages)

Sabine A. Janssen1, Henk Vos1, Elise E. M. M. van Kempen2, Oscar R. P. Breugelmans2, and Henk M. E. Miedema1

1Department of Environment and Health, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), P.O. Box 49, 2600 AA Delft, The Netherlands
2Centre of Environmental Health Research, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands

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Recently, it has been suggested that the annoyance of residents at a given aircraft noise exposure level increases over the years. The objective of the present study was to verify the hypothesized trend and to identify its possible causes. To this end, the large database used to establish earlier exposure–response relationships on aircraft noise was updated with original data from several recent surveys, yielding a database with data from 34 separate airports. Multilevel grouped regression was used to determine the annoyance response per airport, after which meta-regression was used to investigate whether study characteristics could explain the heterogeneity in annoyance response between airports. A significant increase over the years was observed in annoyance at a given level of aircraft noise exposure. Furthermore, the type of annoyance scale, the type of contact, and the response percentage were found to be sources of heterogeneity. Of these, only the scale factor could statistically account for the trend, although other findings rule it out as a satisfactory explanation. No evidence was found for increased self-reported noise sensitivity. The results are of importance to the applicability of current exposure–annoyance relationships for aircraft noise and provide a basis for decisions on whether these need to be updated.

© 2011 Acoustical Society of America

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank Professor Dr. H. C. van Houwelingen of the Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics of the Leiden University Medical Centre for his valuable advice on the statistical aspects of this paper. Also, we would like to acknowledge all researchers and institutions involved for generously making their data available for meta-analysis, in particular Danny Houthuijs, Mark Brink, and Dirk Schreckenberg for giving their consent to using relatively recent data from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Zurich Airport, and Frankfurt Airport, respectively. The present study was funded by the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment (VROM) of the Netherlands.

Article Outline

  1. INTRODUCTION
  2. DATA
    1. Noise exposure measures
    2. Annoyance measures
    3. Possible modifying variables
  3. EXPOSURE-EFFECT MODEL
  4. META-REGRESSION MODEL
  5. RESULTS
    1. Study characteristics
    2. Explaining heterogeneity by study characteristics
    3. Sample characteristics
    4. Explaining heterogeneity by sample characteristics
  6. DISCUSSION
  7. Acoustical factors and exposure assessment
  8. Study design and sample characteristics
  9. Annoyance scale
  10. Cultural differences
  11. Expansion of airports
  12. CONCLUSION

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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

noise pollution, regression analysis

PACS

  • 43.50.Qp

    Effects of noise on man and society

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History
Received 24 Nov 2009
Accepted 14 Dec 2010
Revised 08 Dec 2010
Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3533739

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0001-4966 (print)  

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