Airport noise modelling for strategic environmental impact assessment of aviation

Torija Martinez, AJ; Self, RH; Flindell, IH

Abstract

As projected by different agencies the aviation market will experience a significant increase in air traffic demand
over the next decades, driven by the large demand of the Asia-Pacific region. To overcome the further deterioration
of the quality of life of communities living around airports, the various aviation stakeholders are
required to explore scenarios with different technology options, flight procedures, and fleet replacement strategies.
Of course, the assessment of aviation scenarios must be addressed in a more integrated manner than
hitherto, where noise, air quality and carbon release are considered. For such purpose, simplified airport noise
models are required to overcome the important input data requirements and computation complexity of detailed
airport noise models, and also to ensure compatibility against other environmental and economic models. This
paper analyses the applicability and discusses the unavoidable limitations and advantages of existing simplified
airport noise models within the context of multi-disciplinary strategic environmental impact assessment of
aviation. Simplified airport noise models satisfying the above requirements and developed to be coupled with
technology evaluators, e.g. Rapid Aviation Noise Evaluator (RANE) model (Torija et al., 2017), can inform policy
decisions about which future technology platforms would be likely to be the most environmental efficient when
considered holistically. Based on the specific conditions tested, the straight-out trajectory assumption and the
use of generic aircraft types seem valid approximations for computing aviation noise outputs.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 10, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Nov 22, 2017
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Dec 2, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 2, 2019
• Journal: Applied Acoustics
• Print ISSN: 0003-682X
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Volume: 132
• Pages: 49-57
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.10.017
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.10.017
• Related Public URLs: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/applied-acoustics
• Additional Information: Funders : Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC);Innovate UK; Projects : AIRPORT CAPACITY CONSEQUENCES LEVERAGING AVIATION INTEGRATED MODELLING (ACCLAIM);ROLLS ROYCE SILOET II PROJECT 13 ENGINE INSTALLATION ANALYTICS FOR FUTURE NOVEL ARCHITECTURES; Grant Number: EP/M026868/1; Grant Number: TSB/113086