Technology for a Quieter America.

摘要

In 2005 the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) held a workshop to review the present state of technology in noise control engineering. The workshop was organized by a steering committee charged with developing a prospectus for further studies of noise-related issues in the United States and to investigate how current technologies could be used to reduce exposures to noise. The issues framed by the steering committee were subsequently considered in a series of workshops held by NAE in 2007 and 2008. These issues included a review of community noise and metrics for measuring community noise; new technologies for a quieter America; engineering controls and common descriptors for hazardous noise; the impact of noise on the competitiveness of U.S. products; a cost-benefit analysis of noise control technologies; the gap between industry demand for noise control specialists and the supply coming through the education pipeline; noise control activities at the federal and state levels; state and local community noise control programs; dissemination of information to the public on the benefits of low-noise products; and the adverse effects of excessive noise.