Noise annoyance caused by continuous descent approaches compared to regular descent procedures

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 125, Issue , 2017, Pages 194-198

  White, Kim ^a,b   Arntzen, Michael ^b,c   Walker, Francesco ^a   Waiyaki, Fredrick M ^a   Meeter, Martijn ^a   Bronkhorst, Adelbert W ^a,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY NLR   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aircraft noise; Continuous descent approach (CDA); Noise annoyance; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; LANDING; NOISE ABATEMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AIRCRAFT NOISE; AUDIO SAMPLES; CONTINUOUS DESCENT APPROACH; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; NOISE ANNOYANCE; STEPWISE APPROACH; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS;

EID: 85019134091     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: 1872910X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2017.04.008     Document Type: Article

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