Proceedings of the 11th Convention of the
European Acoustics Association
Forum Acusticum / EuroNoise 2025


Málaga, Spain
June 23 - 26, 2025





Session: A20.07 Aircraft noise
Date: Thursday 26 June 2025
Time: 09:20
Title: Exposure-response relationships between aircraft noise and annoyance or sleep disturbance for Dutch civil and military airports
Author(s): Marije Reedijk
Ric van Poll
Jurriaan Hoekstra
Wim Swart
Jan van der Kassteele
Abhishek Sahai
Danny Houthuijs
Pages: 5901-5906
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.61782/fa.2025.0398
PDF: https://dael.euracoustics.org/confs/fa2025/data/articles/000398.pdf
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Abstract

Residents living near airports are exposed to aircraft noise. In this study we investigated the association between aircraft noise exposure and high annoyance or sleep disturbance in the vicinity of 14 civil and military airports in the Netherlands. Data of 262.310 participants was used from the Municipal Public Health Service Health Monitor 2020, a nationwide survey on the state of public health. In the analyses the responses on the 11-point scale ISO questionnaire aircraft noise annoyance and sleep disturbance are combined with modelled noise exposure at the residential address. We conducted population-weighted logistic regression models with both a linear and non-linear exposure effect. It was possible to derive exposure-response relationship for most larger airports in the Netherlands. More residents were highly annoyed and sleep disturbed in 2020 at the same air traffic noise levels than in a study conducted in 2002 around Schiphol Airport which exposure response relationship is often used in Dutch policy. The survey was conducted during the COVID19 pandemic which could have influenced the results. Key recommendations from this research are the application of airport specific, recent and non-linear exposure response relationships. We plan to expand this current research on air traffic noise to rail and road traffic noise.