Noise Exposure Response - Sleep Disturbance

Project 25's goal is to understand the impact of aircraft noise on sleep, and to develop models that predict sleep disruption for a given aircraft noise profile. Chronic sleep disturbance is associated with multiple health issues including cognitive difficulties, exhaustion, high blood pressure, diabetes, and depression. The amount of time spent in different sleep stages is important in terms of physical and psychological well being. What is not fully understood is how much aircraft noise impacts sleep in communities around airports, and how impacts due to aircraft noise compare with those due to other things (other noise sources, weight, age, stress, etc.) that are known to affect sleep. Models that predict the probability of being in different sleep stages given different profiles of night-time noise exposure are being examined, as are models that predict awakenings.

• Record URL:
  • http://partner.mit.edu/projects/noise-exposure-response-sleep-disturbance
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Centers of Excellence, Aircraft Noise and Aviation Emissions Mitigation. Additional contract numbers: 09-C-NE-UPENN-002, 10-C-NE-UPENN-001, 09-C-NE-UPENN-003, 10-C-NE-UPENN-003, 09-C-NE-PU-021.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $940000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  09-C-NE-PU-007

  09-C-NE-PU-015

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

  800 Independence Avenue, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20591
• Project Managers:

  Sizov, Natalia

  Fisher, Laurie

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

  School of Engineering and Applied Science
  Philadelphia, PA  United States  19104-6315

  Purdue University, West Lafayette

  Indiana Department of Transportation Division of Research
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907
• Principal Investigators:

  Basner, Mathias

  Davies, Patricia

• Start Date: 20080611
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20130531
• Source Data: RiP Project 30356

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft noise; Airport noise; Communities; Noise; Public health
• Uncontrolled Terms: Sleep disturbance
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Safety and Human Factors; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01571735
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 09-C-NE-PU-007, 09-C-NE-PU-015
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Jul 29 2015 1:01AM