Delia Dimitriu

• Manchester Metropolitan University

This chapter describes the core aspects of the land-use planning (LUP) element of the Balanced Approach (BA) by acknowledging the potential of effective LUP as one of the few anticipatory tools available to manage noise. It explores the planning shortcomings that fail to stop encroachment and, thus, the need for remedial mitigation actions such as...

Research suggests that non-acoustic factors can have a considerable effect on community attitudes and opinions towards aviation noise and that these can be influenced through processes of communication and engagement. This paper reviews literature from various fields to identify the key elements of effective practice, using them as a lens through w...

Growing awareness of the negative externalities of aviation has led to increasing objections to airport development, notably to expansion. This can be challenging for airport operators-particularly in regions where air traffic is growing rapidly, or where expansion is sought. In response, the air transport industry has gone to great lengths to redu...

The health implications of aviation noise are well documented and often represent a significant barrier to ambitions for growth of the sector, or for airport development. Legislation exists to help manage and mitigate the impacts of such noise, however the transposition of such regulations into European Member State law differs from state to state...

Environmental noise from aviation represents a significant health burden for citizens and a major constraint to airport development. Industry has responded through noise abatement interventions, however research conducted in the ANIMA Project suggests non-acoustic factors are central to the human health response to noise, and that many of these fac...

An Impacts and Balanced Approach Expert Committee (IBAEC) convened on May 18th at London Heathrow Airport to participate in a workshop facilitated by ANIMA researchers from Manchester Metropolitan University. The workshop aim was to introduce the ANIMA research project, review the key findings of Deliverable 2.1, and to gain participant insight as...

This report presents the work carried out, and the outputs produced for Deliverable 2.1 of ANIMA, in which EU regulations, legal obligations and practical interventions in relation to aircraft noise have been reviewed, focusing on the extent to which policy and practice have enabled effective implementation of ICAO’s Balanced Approach to noise impa...

Aviation noise is known as being one of the main factors that can limit the airport growth, so a wise and well-balanced policy on noise mitigation at, and around the airports is necessary, particularly in the regions with rapid growth of air traffic. Romania is such example, with a 30% increase in air traffic in the first half of 2017. The aim of t...

Research has shown that for residential area nearby (up to 50 m) exurbia roads, there are cases where the evaluation of noise impact needs more than using the calculation methods alone. Thus, in order to confirm (or not) the implementation of designed measures for noise abatement procedures in these areas, some direct acoustical measurements of tra...

1 INTRODUCTION This paper presents an analysis of an expert judgment exercise on the implication of the Environmental Noise Directive (2002/49/EC) to aviation sector. The author presents the results of a two day seminar on "Noise mapping and aviation", held in Vilnius (Lithuania) on 11 & 12 October 2005. The analysis of difficulties and gaps of END...