Remote work: Aircraft noise implications, prediction, and management in the built environment

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Remote work: Aircraft noise implications, prediction, and management in the built environment
Title:
Remote work: Aircraft noise implications, prediction, and management in the built environment
Journal Title:
Applied Acoustics
Publication Date:
24 August 2022
Citation:
Ang, L. Y. L., & Cui, F. (2022). Remote work: Aircraft noise implications, prediction, and management in the built environment. Applied Acoustics, 198, 108978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2022.108978
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly changed workplace management. Most workplaces have adopted the work-from-home policy to minimize the risk of community spread. Consequently, housing estates remain largely occupied during office hours. Since some housing estates are situated in the vicinity of an airport, noise pollution resulted from the takeoff and landing of aircraft is now more noticed by residents, causing annoyance. This problem would be most acute for those located directly under the flight path. Before the pandemic, such aircraft operations had lower effect on the residents because most of them were not at home but at workplaces. Evidently, it is timely that more emphasis should now be placed during urban planning to predict and minimize aircraft noise in the built environment. This article first defines the aircraft noise metrics commonly used to assess environmental impact. Preceded by an overview of how aircraft noise affects the built environment, this article reviews how various aircraft noise prediction models have been used in urban planning. Lastly, this article reviews how aircraft noise can be managed for better acoustic comfort of the residents. Anticipating the adoption of hybrid work arrangement moving forward, this article aims to provide urban planning professionals with an avenue to understand how aircraft noise can negatively affect the built environment, which, in turn, justify why prediction and management of aircraft noise should be emphasized from the outset of urban planning.
License type:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Funding Info:
There was no specific funding for the research done
Description:
ISSN:
0003-682X
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