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. 2022 Jul 22;19(15):8921.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph19158921.

Impact of Aircraft Delays on Population Noise Exposure in Airport's Surroundings

Nermin Zijadić  1 , Emir Ganić  2 , Matija Bračić  3 , Igor Štimac  3   4
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Impact of Aircraft Delays on Population Noise Exposure in Airport's Surroundings

Nermin Zijadić et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The motivation behind this research was to analyse the consequences of aircraft operations' delays on cumulative noise levels produced upon the neighbouring communities and to estimate the relative change in the number of people annoyed by aircraft noise. Many studies showed that residents' reactions to abrupt changes in noise exposure were more intense compared to the anticipated ones. Aircraft delays may cause such abrupt changes in noise exposure by increasing the traffic in some periods compared to the scheduled traffic. The methodology applied includes noise contour development for two different scenarios for intervals where aircraft delays occur. Only delays connected with the Total Airport Management (TAM) were analysed, since such delays can be influenced by airports. The first scenario considered the influence of aircraft operations on population noise exposure without TAM delays, whereas the second one included all delayed flights (actual traffic). The proposed method was tested through case studies of three southeast European airports. The results showed that the highest potential of decrease in the number of people annoyed by the noise was recorded at Niš Airport (59%), followed by Zadar Airport (49%) and Sarajevo Airport (25%). Similar results were obtained in the context of highly annoyed people.

Keywords: airport environmental management; airport noise contour; noise annoyance; noise modelling; total airport management.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The company had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, and in the decision to publish the results.

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Figure 1
Research methodology.
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Figure 2
Comparative analysis of annoyed people around airports of Sarajevo, Zadar and Niš.
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Figure 3
Comparative analysis of highly annoyed people around airports of Sarajevo, Zadar and Niš.
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Figure 4
LAeq,15min noise contours for Sarajevo Airport, (a) with TAM-related delays and (b) without TAM-related delays.
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Figure 5
LAeq,1h noise contours for Zadar Airport, (a) with TAM-related delays and (b) without TAM-related delays.
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Figure 6
LAeq,1h noise contours for Niš Airport, (a) with TAM-related delays and (b) without TAM-related delays.
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This research was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia and Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia. It also represents a part of the bilateral scientific and technological cooperation project between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Croatia for the period 2019–2020, named “A support to sustainable development of air transport system”. The APC was funded by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences.

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