Project 19 - Longterm Health Effects/Cognitive Performance

There can be health related consequences of exposure to community noise. For example, cardiovascular effects that may arise as a consequence of stress caused by noise, sleep disturbance where sleep patterns are disturbed and conscious and premature awakenings may occur, and noise related annoyance that can cause negative emotions. Noise can also cause cognitive impairment in children, which can lead to a subsequent impairment in the quality of life. To optimize airport development, it is important to be able to quantify the impact of noise accurately so that a realistic cost-benefit analysis of a proposed development can be performed. In many cases, hedonistic measures of noise impact, such as differences in house prices in noise exposed vs. non-exposed communities are used. But, by using such an approach, is the true cost of the noise being determined, or are there more serious health effects caused by environmental noise exposure, perhaps not fully understood by people living in communities, that ultimately lead to a shortened life span and/or reduced quality of life? If so, at what noise level do these effects begin to occur and how do they grow with increasing noise levels? Project 19 was completed with a review of the health effects of noise literature, particularly that portion related to aircraft noise, and a detailed examination of the basis for the findings reported in these recent meta-analysis studies was published in a report, which may be downloaded below. Projects 25 and 44 are conducting additional aviation noise impact research.

• Record URL:
  http://partner.mit.edu/projects/health-effects-aircraft-noise
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Energy and Environment, Noise Impacts and Mitigation. The Final Report is available at: http://ntl.bts.gov/lib/54000/54400/54456/proj19-healtheffectnoise.pdf

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $15000.00
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Aviation Administration

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

  Hileman, James

  Maurice, Lourdes

• Performing Organizations:

  Purdue University, West Lafayette

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

  Waitz, Ian

• Start Date: 20120510
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 30568

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aircraft noise; Cognition; Environmental impacts; Health hazards; Noise; Public health; Quality of life
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Environment; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01572527
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP
• Created Date: Aug 8 2015 1:02AM