Exposure-response relationships on community annoyance to transportation noise

The first synthesis study for the community response to noise was reported by Shultz in 1978 (Schultz 1978). It covers the response to all the traffic noise including aircraft as well as ground vehicles. Kryter found that the response to ground traffic noise differed from that to air traffic noise at the same exposure level (Kryter 1982). Finegold et al. reanalyzed the datasets and recommended three different curves to describe the community annoyance to aircraft, road traffic and railway noise (Finegold et al. 1994). Recently, Miedema et al. made a synthesis study from datasets of 45 different social surveys and established annoyance curves for each transportation noise (Miedema & Vos 1998; Miedema & Oudshoorn 2001).