This paper describes a systematic review (1980-2014) of evidence on effects of transport noise interventions on human health. The sources are road traffic, railways, and air traffic. Health outcomes include sleep disturbance, annoyance, cognitive impairment of children and cardiovascular diseases. A conceptual framework to classify noise interventions and health effects was developed. Evidence was thinly spread across source types, outcomes, and intervention types. Further, diverse intervention study designs, methods of analyses, exposure levels, and changes in exposure do not allow a meta-analysis of the association between changes in noise level and health outcomes, and risk of bias in most studies was high. However, 43 individual transport noise intervention studies were examined (33 road traffic; 7 air traffic; 3 rail) as to whether the intervention was associated with a change in health outcome. Results showed that many of the interventions were associated with changes in health outcomes irrespective of the source type, the outcome or intervention type (source, path or infrastructure). For road traffic sources and the annoyance outcome, the expected effect-size can be estimated from an appropriate exposure-response function, though the change in annoyance in most studies was larger than could be expected based on noise level change.

WHO Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region: A Systematic Review of Transport Noise Interventions and Their Impacts on Health

Multi-objective optimisation of aircraft flight trajectories in the ATM and avionics context

Exposure to traffic noise is associated with stress and sleep disturbances. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently concluded that road traffic noise increases the risk for ischemic heart disease and potentially other cardiometabolic diseases, including stroke, obesity, and diabetes. The WHO report focused on whole-day noise exposure, but new epidemiological and translational field noise studies indicate that nighttime noise, in particular,is an important risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) through increased levels of stress hormones and vascular oxidative stress, leading to endothelial dysfunction and subsequent development of various CVDs. Novel experimental studies found noise to be associated with oxidative stress-induced vascular and brain damage, mediated by activation of the NADPH oxidase, uncoupling of endothelial and neuronal nitric oxide synthase, and vascular/brain infiltration with inflammatory cells. Noise-induced pathophysiology was more pronounced in response to nighttime as compared with daytime noise. This review focuses on the consequences of nighttime noise.

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-081519-062400

Adverse cardiovascular effects of traffic noise with a focus on nighttime noise and the new WHO noise guidelines

Optimization approaches of aircraft flight path reducing noise: Comparison of modeling methods

On the solution of general absolute value equations

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01217977/document

Solving Absolute Value Equation using Complementarity and Smoothing Functions

The objective of this paper is to develop a model and a minimization method to provide flight path optimums reducing aircraft noise in the vicinity of airports. Optimization algorithm has solved a complex optimal control problem, and generates flight paths minimizing aircraft noise levels. Operational and safety constraints have been considered and their limits satisfied. Results are here presented and discussed.

Optimization of operational aircraft parameters Reducing Noise Emission

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Optimization of operational aircraft parameters reducing noise emission

We propose an exact penalty approach to solve the mathematical problems with equilibrium constraints (MPECs). This work is based on the smoothing functions introduced by Haddou but we do not need any complicate updating rule for the penalty parameter. We present some numerical results to prove the viability of the approach. We consider two generic applications : the binary quadratic programs and simple number partitioning problems.

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00586647/document

Lina Abdallah

Papers

Solving Absolute Value Equation using Complementarity and Smoothing Functions

Optimization approaches of aircraft flight path reducing noise: Comparison of modeling methods

Optimization of operational aircraft parameters Reducing Noise Emission

Optimization of operational aircraft parameters reducing noise emission

An exact penalty approach for mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints.