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Collating airport annoyance knowledge for the development of shared indicators |
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Airports have been identified as one of the bottlenecks restricting the growth of air transport. Airport expansion is sometimes delayed or even stopped because of strong resistance from surrounding communities, who see it as the cause of various kinds of annoyance such as noise and degradation of local air quality. Understanding the factors which contribute to this resistance and how new shared indicators can be developed can help to improve the relationship between airports and their neighbouring communities.
Current developments in the debates about environmental effects at and around airports call for:
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- New information for new decisions: The environmental effects of air traffic and airport functions are growing in importance in debates among stakeholders (local governments, residents and communities), and have now entered into the collective consciousness. Improvements in the territorial integration of airport platforms require more precise knowledge of their effects, both positive (activities, jobs) and negative.
- A new role for co-built indicators: from technical knowledge imported from the scientific field, these indicators have slowly become products of the social and political context, providing:
• an opportunity for debate between multiple stakeholders at the time of their elaboration
• an extensive knowledge base and different disciplinary analyses of the multiple and complex environmental effects
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Research has been carried out for many years to measure noise and gaseous emissions and investigate their effects on people. A collection of the various research results from the past 10 years was carried out in 2006, with two objectives:
- to constitute a corpus of knowledge on the negative effects of air transport at and around airports, identifying shortcomings and gaps in the research in this area.
- to survey current initiatives to develop shared indicators at airports.
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The review of the scientific state-of the-art was conducted in the areas of:
- aircraft noise annoyance
- health effects of noise (including effects on children) and of air pollution
- effects on territories e.g. property values, urban dynamics
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The development of indicators was also analysed, including the controversies surrounding some of the official indicators, which have been perceived as being too uniform and mono-disciplinary to take into account the multiple effects of airports (i.e. acoustics, psycho-acoustics or property value depreciation).
New directions for constructing indicators are presented, coming from the fields of:
- psycho-sociology and geography e.g. qualitative noise maps
- economics, in order to evaluate the social cost of environmental damage, e.g. willingness to pay, noise depreciation index, health expenditure
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Finally the report looks at current or recent initiatives in the shared development of new indicators involving the airport and the neighbouring communities, from Sydney, Amsterdam, Vienna, Bedford, Orly airports.
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Last validation: 22/02/2008
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