Airport noise footprints revisited: The impact of the cut-off value on noise costs

This study examines linear and non-linear airport noise effects in the airport region of Duesseldorf, Germany, and extends existing findings with regard to threshold values of airport noise effects. By applying spatial hedonic regression the authors estimate a linear noise depreciation sensitivity index (NDSI) value of 1.0. However, rent devaluations due to airport noise exposure appear to be non-linear. Furthermore they discover statistically significant adverse effects of airport noise exposure in a 500-meter-wide zone extending the standard noise footprint defined by a cut-off value of 55 dB(A) L(den). Airport noise impacts are consequentially underestimated when calculated on the basis of the standard cut-off value defined in Directive 2002/49/EC. (A)

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• Authors:
  • Pueschel, R
  • Evangelinos, C
• Publication Date: 2016-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 39-51
• Serial:
  • Zeitschrift fuer Verkehrswissenschaft
  • Volume: 87
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Verkehrs-Verlag J. Fischer
  • ISSN: 0044-3670

Subject/Index Terms

• ITRD Terms: 1037: Airport; 6464: Calculation; 224: Cost; 308: Dwelling; 204: External effect; 236: Market; 2492: Noise; 307: Residential area; 6747: Sound level; 393: Vicinity
• Subject Areas: I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01604915
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen (BASt)
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jul 25 2016 9:14AM