title: Effect of background noise levels on community annoyance from aircraft noise.
abstract: A study of community annoyance caused by exposures to civil aircraft noise was carried out in 20 sites around Gimpo and Gimhae international airports to investigate the effect of background noise in terms of dose-effect relationships between aircraft noise levels and annoyance responses under real conditions. Aircraft noise levels were mainly measured using airport noise monitoring systems, B&K type 3597. Social surveys were administered to people living within 100 m of noise measurement sites. The question relating to the annoyance of aircraft noise was answered on an 11-point numerical scale. The randomly selected respondents, who were aged between 18 and 70 years, completed the questionnaire independently. In total, 753 respondents participated in social surveys. The result shows that annoyance responses in low background noise regions are much higher than those in high background noise regions, even though aircraft noise levels are the same. It can be concluded that the background noise level is one of the important factors on the estimation of community annoyance from aircraft noise exposure.
authors.affiliation: School for Creative Engineering Design of Next Generation Mechanical and Aerospace Systems, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-744, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Changwoo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Jaehwan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jiyoung
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hong
authors.forename: Soogab
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000401:Aircraft / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003625:Data Collection; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D005260:Female; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007723:Korea / Q000453:epidemiology; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009622:Noise / Q000009:adverse effects; D009624:Noise, Transportation / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011639:Public Opinion; D012424:Rural Population; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population