REPORTS OF SLEEP INTERFERENCE AND ANNOYANCE BY AIRCRAFT NOISE

The paper presents the results of a community noise survey in which 1500 residents living in 11 communities near Kennedy Airport in New York were interviewed with regard to their night, day, and evening annoyance responses to aircraft noise. It was found that, while nighttime operations are only 35% of evening a 48% of daytime activity, the reported mean annoyance during the night is 71% of evening and 90% of the daytime reported annoyance. This suggests that each nighttime flight has the equivalent annoyance effect of 2 day on evening flights. This is compared with the ENR, NEF and Ldn indexes that assume that 10 daytime flights are the equivalent of one nighttime flyover.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • NOISEXPO 75, National Noise and Vibration Control Conference.
• Corporate Authors:

  NOISEXPO 75

  Bay Village, OH  United States 
• Authors:
  • Borsky, P N
• Conference:
  • NOISEXPO 75, National Noise and Vibration Control Conference.
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 339-343

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft noise; Airport noise; Environmental impact analysis; Environmental impacts; Forecasting; Health hazards; Night; Noise
• Identifier Terms: John F. Kennedy International Airport
• Old TRIS Terms: Composite noise rating; Day night levels; Noise exposure forecast
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00155789
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: International Aerospace Abstracts
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM