Overview
Provides readers with the context and analysis necessary to understand contemporary aircraft noise regulatory policy
Helpful in discouraging continuation of ineffective or counterproductive policies
Useful for a broad audience of acoustical consultants, airport planners, urban planners, civil engineers, regulatory agencies, local government officials, and students
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Aviation noise remains the primary hindrance to expansion of airport and airspace capacity in the United States. This book describes the development and practice of U.S. aircraft noise regulation, as well as the practical consequences of regulatory policy. Starting in the pre-jet transport era, the book traces the development of the modern framework for characterizing, standardizing, predicting, disclosing, and mitigating aircraft noise and its effects on airport-vicinity communities. Among other matters, the book treats noise-related consequences of the 1978 deregulation of the airline industry; prediction and mitigation of community reaction to airport noise; land use compatibility planning; recent research and industry trends; and some suggestions for potential improvements to current policy.
Initial chapters describe the assumptions underlying aircraft noise regulation, and lay out the chronology of U.S. aircraft noise regulatory practice. Later chapters provide overviews of population-level effects of aviation noise, including health effects, speech and sleep interference, and annoyance. Readers will learn why predictions of the prevalence of aircraft noise-induced annoyance have systematically underestimated adverse community response to aircraft noise, and how such underestimation has complicated approval and funding of airport and airspace improvement projects. They will also learn why attempts at noise-compatible land use planning are seldom fully successful.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Guide To U.S. Aircraft Noise Regulatory Policy
Authors: Sanford Fidell, Vincent Mestre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39908-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39907-8Published: 04 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39908-5Published: 03 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 144
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Acoustics, Engineering Acoustics, Aerospace Technology and Astronautics, Geography, general, Community and Environmental Psychology