Port Columbus, Ohio, International Airport Southwest Noise Berm–Wall Project: Comparison of General Prediction Method and ISO 9613-2 Computations

The Columbus Regional Airport Authority plans to relocate Runway 10R-28L at Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, 702 ft south of its existing location. This action would require the acquisition and removal of 35 houses to meet FAA airport design standards. The airport’s most recent Federal Aviation Regulations Part 150 Noise Compatibility Plan (NCP) includes an approved noise abatement measure to construct a noise berm–wall to help reduce noise and minimize the visual impacts caused by removal of the houses. The Columbus Regional Airport Authority retained Harris, Miller, Miller, and Hanson Inc. (HMMH) to conduct a noise mitigation study to determine the final location, length, height, and composition of the berm–wall. In addition, the study sought to confirm whether the proposed measure would comply with FAA noise reduction standards, thereby making it eligible, as an approved NCP measure, for FAA funding. HMMH conducted the evaluation using the general prediction method as implemented in the SoundPLAN computer model. On previous projects, HMMH has used SoundPLAN’s implementation of ISO Standard 9613-2. For this project, however, the authors found the general prediction method to provide results that were more uniform and also in closer agreement with prior measured and predicted results than those computed by ISO 9613-2. This paper provides a comparison of the relevant aspects of the two standards and suggests explanations for the differing results.

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  • Accession Number: 01337830
  • Record Type: Publication
  • ISBN: 9780309167499
  • Report/Paper Numbers: 11-1632
  • Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
  • Created Date: Apr 26 2011 8:48AM