Research Methods for Understanding Aricraft Noise Annoyances and Sleep Disturbance. Web-Only Document 17

摘要

This report presents the final documentation for the two parts of this ACRP 02-35 project. This executive summary addresses first the aircraft noise annoyance survey tasks, and second, the sleep disturbance effort. Then, Sections 2 through 10 describe the annoyance survey methodology that was developed and applied and the results relevant to the goals of the study. Section 12 examines airport-community relations. Section 13 lists the references cited in the discussion of annoyance. Sections 14 through 17 present the final sleep disturbance study designs and the budget estimates for each type of study. Section 17 presents the references cited in the discussion of the sleep study design. Appendices provide materials referenced throughout the report.