Systematic Interpretation of a Dosage-Effect Relationship for the Prevalence of Noise-Induced Annoyance.

摘要

This report applies a NSBIT -developed probabilistic model to a body of social survey findings described by Fidell, Barber and Schultz (1988) to derive a dosage-effect relationship between outdoor noise exposure and the prevalence of annoyance in communities. The probabilistic model (Fidell, Schultz and Green, 1988) provides a means for independently estimating the contributions of acoustic and nonacoustic factors (the latter collectively termed 'response bias') to the observed prevalence of annoyance in communities. The results of the analysis described in this report permit construction of tools that environmental planners can use to make more sophisticated and defensible predictions of annoyance associated with noise of Air Force flight operations. Keywords: Annoyance; Aircraft noise; Traffic noise; Psycho-acoustics; Community response; Noise pollution. (kt)