Updating a Dosage-Effect Relationship for the Prevalence of Annoyance Due to General Transportation Noise

Abstract

More than a decade has passed since a relationship between community noise exposure and the prevalence of annoyance was synthesized by Schultz (1978) from the findings of a variety of social surveys. The Air Force has come to rely heavily on this quantitative dosage-effect relationship for predicting aircraft noise-induced annoyance in environmental assessment documents. The effort described in this report updates the 1978 relationship with findings of social surveys conducted since its publication. Although the number of data points from which a new relationship was inferred more than doubled, the newly derived relationship differs little from the ones derived in 1978. Keywords: Noise pollution; Annoyance; Aircraft noise; Traffic noise; Psychoacoustics; Community response.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 15, 1989
Accession Number
ADA219416

Entities

People

  • David Barber
  • Sanford Fidell
  • Theodore J. Schultz

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustic Measurement
  • Acoustics
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Aircraft Noise
  • Aircrafts
  • Communities
  • Data Sets
  • Governments
  • Jet Transport Aircraft
  • Measurement
  • Noise
  • Public Health
  • Security
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Transportation

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Organizational Psychology.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference