This paper highlights critical research needs identified by the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) Office of Environment and Energy to advance analysis of the impacts of aviation noise and to develop optimal mitigation solutions. The FAA continues to work towards providing the safest, most efficient aviation system in the world that operates in an environmentally sound manner. Contours of annual average noise exposure for long-established U.S. airport communities have decreased because of continuing reductions in the amount of noise emitted by individual aircraft and other noise mitigation measures, despite an over 50 percent increase in passenger enplanements since 1990. Nevertheless, airport communities remain concerned about aircraft noise, as illustrated by the public's response to aircraft operations from the newly opened runways at Chicago O'Hare and Seattle-Tacoma airports. Improving efficiency through airspace redesign, airport capacity expansion, and other initiatives of the FAA Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen), may be hampered without an aggressive program to address the environmental consequences of aviation noise.
Advancing Aircraft Noise Impacts Research: A White Paper
2009
7 pages
Report
No indication
English
Noise Pollution & Control , Acoustics , Aircraft , Environmental Management & Planning , Environment , Aircraft noise , Noise effects , Health , Welfare , Costs , Environmental impacts , Research , National parks , Wilderness , Aviation noise , NextGen Noise Modeling Enhancements , Unconventional aircraft , Operational regimes