Environmental Impact Of Airport Operations

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An environmental impact of airport operations that plays a significant role for airport managers is airport noise. Airport managers have to make sure that the sound of the airport is not violating the city the airports are in, so they have to take precautions to keep the airport running and the city they reside in happy. Excessive noise in a city is simply an unwanted sound (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). The two main factors they have to consider are the intensity of the sound and the sound frequency (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). With these factors, they have to consider cumulative noise, which is all of the movement of an airport over a specific period (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). An airport manager needs to have the cumulative sound to an A-weighted sound level; this is the accepted community noise (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). A-weighted sound levels also change from day to night, so more acceptable noise during the day and less in the night (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). Airport managers should use the Aircraft Noise Prediction Program (ANOPP)  (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). The ANOPP is used to analyze and display the noise impact of a typical flight path that is flown (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). The ANOPP investigates how much an aircraft can perform compared to the noise it makes (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). In addition to the ANOPP, airport managers have to use the Noise Integrated Routing System (NIRS) (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). The NIRS is the FAA standard noise model, and it efficiently maps out large regions of airspace aircraft noise (Visser & Wijnen, 2008). Airport managers should aim to produce an airport with sound average noise emission and consider a common ground to assess aircraft noise in a community (Visser & Wijnen, 2008).

                                                                         (Qantas, n.d.)

V / R, Jordon Martinez

References:

Our Approach to Aircraft Noise Management. Qantas. (n.d.). https://www.qantas.com/travel/airlines/our-approach/global/en.

Visser, H., & Wijnen, R. (2008). Management of the environmental impact at airport operations. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.libproxy.db.erau.edu