The effectiveness of regulatory noise mitigation measures

Abstract

The air transport growth of the last years has a negative side effect of increasing noise disturbances. A lot of airports have reacted with the introduction of an increasing number of different noise mitigation measures. This paper concentrates on the most important regulatory noise mitigation actions, not considering technical or operational procedures. These political regulations are often applied in a combined form so that it is nearly impossible to calculate their individual effects. To get an idea of their effectiveness this paper concentrates on expert interviews. Whenever the effectiveness was analysed so far, emphasis was primarily on noise effectiveness. Aim of this paper is to assess noise mitigation measures from the perspectives of different stakeholders at and around airports. In the analysis of the interviews the background of the experts will be considered to evaluate how far this will have an influence.