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Community reaction to aircraft noise around smaller city airports
W. K. Connor,H. P. Patterson +1 more
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In this paper, the results of a study of community reaction to jet aircraft noise in the vicinity of airports in Chattanooga, Tennessee and Reno, Nevada were presented. But the study was conducted in less highly urbanized areas.Abstract:
The results are presented of a study of community reaction to jet aircraft noise in the vicinity of airports in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Reno, Nevada. These cities were surveyed in order to obtain data for comparison with that obtained in larger cities during a previous study. (The cities studied earlier were Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York.) The purpose of the present effort was to observe the relative reaction under conditions of lower noise exposure and in less highly urbanized areas, and to test the previously developed predictive equation for annoyance under such circumstances. In Chattanooga and Reno a total of 1960 personal interviews based upon questionnaires were obtained. Aircraft noise measurements were made concurrently and aircraft operations logs were maintained for several weeks in each city to permit computation of noise exposures. The survey respondents were chosen randomly from various exposure zones.read more
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Predictions of noise disturbance near large airports
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between public annoyance with aircraft noise, objective measures of the noise itself, and mediating social or psychological conditions which affect the noise-annoyance relationship.