Living with aircraft noise: Airport proximity,aviation noise and subjective wellbeing in England |
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Institution: | 1. German Aerospace Center, Institute of Aerospace Medicine, Department of Flight Physiology, Linder Höhe, 51147 Cologne, Germany;2. Budapest University of Technology and Ergonomics, Department of Networked Systems and Services, Magyar tudósok körútja 2, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary |
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Abstract: | Airport expansion is an issue of intense public debate due to the potential impacts on climate change and the quality of life of affected local communities. This paper is the first study to analyse the relationships between airports and multiple subjective wellbeing measures, by merging national-level population statistics with noise measurement maps for seventeen English airports. The presence of daytime aviation noise was found to consistently negatively impact on five subjective wellbeing measures. We found a marginal negative association with every additional decibel of aircraft noise. We found no significant association between wellbeing and living within night-time noise contours or living in close airport proximity. We conclude that living under air traffic flight paths has a negative effect on peoples’ overall and momentary wellbeing, equivalent to around half the effect of being a smoker for some wellbeing measures. The subjective wellbeing method findings support wider revealed preference literature showing lower market demand in areas affected by aviation noise. |
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Keywords: | Aircraft noise Subjective wellbeing Aviation impacts Quality of life Transport policy Impact assessment |
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