Noise management in the light of airport development

摘要

Noise arising from the airport and aircraft operations has been one of the most challenging issues in the development of Zurich Airport for many years. Various mitigation measures such as a complete night flight ban between 23.30 and 06.00 h, noise charges and operational measures were imposed for diminishing the negative impacts. Aircraft noise is carefully monitored at Zurich Airport by numerous noise monitoring terminals. Legal noise limits (Leq) define "acceptable" noise loads during day and night in terms of noise protection and land use planning purposes. Also the severely affected people by noise are calculated yearly and compared to a defined limit value. Despite all these initiatives public debate on present noise loads and future development of air traffic in Zurich including the management of arrival and departure routes has been predominant in recent years. Any changes in the operational procedures lead to numerous complaints and heat up the political debate on airport development and operational restrictions. In this paper, we give an overview of different approaches, conflicts, and achievements of the last decade, and give some prospects on the future development of noise management.