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Assessing community noise annoyance: a review of two decades of the international technical specification ISO/TS 15666:2003

Clark, CES; Gjestland, T; Lavia, L; Notley, H; Michaud, D; Morinaga, M (2021) Assessing community noise annoyance: a review of two decades of the international technical specification ISO/TS 15666:2003. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 150 (5). p. 3362. ISSN 0001-4966 https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006967
SGUL Authors: Clark, Charlotte Elizabeth Sarah

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Abstract

The robust assessment of noise annoyance is of key importance given that it is the most prevalent community response in populations exposed to environmental noise. In 1993 the International Commission on Biological Effects of Noise Community Response to Noise team began formalizing a standardized methodology for assessing noise annoyance, which resulted in reporting guidelines and recommendations later published as a Technical Specification (TS) by the International Standards Organization in 2003 (ISO/TS 15666: 2003). This TS, intended to inform the international community on the quantification of the exposure-response relationship between noise exposure and annoyance, has been in circulation for nearly two decades and has been updated in 2021 (ISO/TS 15666: 2021) by an international working group (ISO TC43/SC1/WG62). This paper reviews use of the 2003 TS, identifies common adaptations in use and summarizes the revisions. Methodological issues arising from the use of the 5-point verbal and the 11-point numeric scale questions and the scoring of ‘highly annoyed’ are discussed. The revisions are designed to encourage further standardization in noise annoyance research. The paper highlights research needs that if addressed would strengthen the methodology underlying the assessment of noise annoyance including multidimensional assessments of annoyance.

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Additional Information: Copyright 2021 Acoustical Society of America. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the Acoustical Society of America. The following article appeared in Clark, CES; Gjestland, T; Lavia, L; Notley, H; Michaud, D; Morinaga, M (2021) Assessing community noise annoyance: a review of two decades of the international technical specification ISO/TS 15666:2003. JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA, 150 (5). p. 3362 and may be found at https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006967.
Keywords: MD Multidisciplinary, Acoustics
SGUL Research Institute / Research Centre: Academic Structure > Population Health Research Institute (INPH)
Journal or Publication Title: JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
ISSN: 0001-4966
Dates:
DateEvent
5 November 2021Published
7 October 2021Accepted
Publisher License: Publisher's own licence
URI: https://openaccess.sgul.ac.uk/id/eprint/113744
Publisher's version: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006967

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