Implementation of noise budgets for civil airports

Conference · Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1982 · Proc. - Int. Conf. Noise Control Eng.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5985701

Bishop, D E

An increasing number of airports are faced with the need for establishing a lid on the noise from aircraft operations and for developing programs for reducing airport noise on a year-to-year basis. As an example, the California Airport Noise Standard acts to impose such programs on a number of airports in California. Any airport faced with the need to establish a quantitative reduction of noise obviously wants to achieve this reduction with the least impact on numbers of operations and reduction in air transportation services to the community. A reduction in noise and an increase in operations usually can be achieved only by encouraging use of the quietest aircraft available and, further adding incentives for operating procedures that minimize noise. One approach in administering airport noise reduction is to adopt an airport noise budget. As used in this paper, the noise budget concept implies that quantitative limits on the noise environment and on the noise contributions by major airport users will be established. Having methods for enforcing compliance with the airport budget for those airport users that exceed their budget will be established. Thus, the noise budget provides airport management, and major airport users, with quantitative measures for defining noise goals, and actual progress in achieving such goals.

• Research Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Canoga Park, CA
• OSTI ID: 5985701
• Journal Information: Proc. - Int. Conf. Noise Control Eng.; (United States), Vol. 2
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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