Airport Noise Pollution

 There are a lot of different environmental factors that affect airports. As a manager, you must assess these impacts and decide the severity of each of them, and if possible, find ways to reduce the impact of the factor. One of these environmental factors is noise pollution. The noise of an airport may not seem to be anything more than annoying, but unfortunately, noise pollution can have many negative effects on people exposed to it. Some of these effects include it could keep people from being able to sleep which will affect their overall health, children have been known to struggle academically from overexposure to airport noises, this could also affect adults work productivity.  One of the more serious effects of this noise is that it will increase the chance of someone suffering from cardiovascular disease.

                                      


      

Now that we know about the possible effects of noise pollution what can we do to mitigate the airport noises? Unfortunately, it would be impossible to be rid of the noises altogether. One possible solution would be to have multiple route options for both arrivals and departures. This would reduce the impact of the noise by spreading the noise in different directions so no one area is over-exposed. Another thing that can be done is limit the number of night flights for both arrivals and departures. This way at the very least the noise would not prevent people from being able to sleep.

 

Falzone, K. L. (1998). Airport noise pollution: Is there a solution in sight. BC Envtl. Aff. L. Rev.26, 769.

Visser, H., & Wijnen, R. (2008). Management of the environmental impact at airport operations. Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated.

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