Year 2000 International Airport Noise Symposium
Emerging Issues for the New Millennium

Introduction and Welcome
Martin Wachs, Director
Institute of Transportation Studies
University of California, Berkeley

Welcome
San Diego Unified Port District

Moderator of Morning Session:
Edward Haboly, Environmental Specialist
Vancouver International Airport

Airport noise management beyond Stage 3
Despite major investment in new aircraft and aircraft retrofitting required to achieve a 100% Stage 3 fleet, noise continues to be a significant problem in communities. The noise issue also impedes efforts to expand operations and airport facilities for both airline and general aviation airports.

John Smyth
General Manager Airside Operations
Toronto Pearson International Airport

The relevance and application of Part 161:
The use of Part 161 provisions to impose local controls of Stage 3 aircraft is an action being sought by local communities as a means of relief from new or additional jet aircraft operations.

Peter Kirsh
Cutler & Stanfield

Aircraft Under 75,000 lbs.
This category of aircraft is specifically excluded from the provisions of the Airport Noise Capacity Act. Experience indicates that noise from some of the excluded aircraft is a significant problem.

Jeff Gilley
National Business Aircraft Association

Gaetan Dureau
Manager, Sales and Marketing Support
Bombardier Aerospace

Moderator of Afternoon Session:
John-Paul Clarke
Assistant Professor of Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Noise economics : history and prospects
Whatcan be learned from the history of "noise economics" and what can we expect to change or remain the same in the future?

Farshad Farhang
Senior Noise Analyst
CH2M Hill - SCO Office

Richard Burke
Aviation Environmental Director

Steve Alterman, President
Airline Cargo Association

Pat Quinn
Former State Treasurer of Illinois

Ron Seymour, Program Manager
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport

Bengt-Olov Nas (invited)
SAS

International issues
The Economic Community recently considered an action to exclude aircraft that had received hush kit treatment or obtained re-certification to comply with Stage 3 requirements. How will the international community deal with noise issues in the future?

Jane Hupe
International Committee on Civil Aviation

Mark Atwood
Sher & Blackwell

Paul Dykeman, Deputy Director
Office of Environment and Energy
Federal Aviation Administration

Moderator of Morning Session:
Richard Marchi, Senior Vice President,
Technical and Environmental Affairs
Airports Council International

Jet engine development
New technology from NASA and engine manufacturers may provide additional noise reduction. What are the latest developments and to what degree will they mitigate noise?

William Willshire
NASA Langley Research Center

Stephen Jones, Program Manager
Pratt & Whitney Advanced Engine Programs

Development of large aircraft
Aircraft manufacturers are considering the development of new aircraft that would be much larger than those now in commercial service. These aircraft could potentially reduce the rate of growth in aircraft operations. What are the likely noise characteristics?

Ira Rushwald, Manager, Noise Engineering
Twin Aisle Program Support and Product Development
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group

Jan Shumacher
Airbus

Flight paths to and from airports
The rise in aircraft operations has caused the FAA to increase the use of existing flight paths, extend the areas of over-flight or to create new flight paths over populated areas. While these over-flights occur at altitudes previously considered to be free of noise impacts, recent community reactions suggest otherwise.

Christopher Arman, Assistant Commissioner
City of Chicago, O'Hare International Airport

Over-flight of wilderness areas and outdoor events
The National Park Service and the FAA have been working on metrics, criteria and procedures to address this issue.

Gregg G. Fleming, Manager, Acoustics Facility
US Department of Transportation

Reports from Australia:

Conventional event detection vs. neural network method.
Mike Rickard-Bell, Director
Lochard - Australia

Aircraft noise metrics that ordinary people can understand.
David Southgate
Sydney Environment Airports Operations
Department of Transport & Regional Services

Metrics and local situations
Different strategies have been developed to apply noise metrics and the criteria to local situations that involve both technical and political efforts.

Charles Wilson
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Reports from France and Egypt
France has undertaken a study of the noise issues relative to proposed airport expansion and a new airport site. In Egypt, the Civil Aviation Authority is completing an extensive noise audit at three major airports.

Laetitia Jacob
French Civil Aviation Authority

Tamer Elnady, Technical Director and Assistant Lecturer
Ain Shams University, Cairo

Aircraft flight tracking and noise management

Bennett Cohen
Rannoch Corporation

Jonathan Baldwin
Rannoch Corporation

Local impacts and policy

Noise and environmental justice
Concerns for environmental justice address the social distribution of benefits and adverse impacts of public actions and associated mitigation measures. The term has specific meaning with respect to federal actions, and the issue is likely to form an increasingly important component of the debate over airport expansion plans.

Robert Garcia, Senior Attorney
Environmental Defense Fund

Lisa Toscano, J.D.
General Attorney
Federal Aviation Administration

Betty DeRosier (invited)
Boston Logan International Airport

Benchmarking your noise compatibility program: the Year 2000 National Noise Compatibility Program Survey

Michael Hotaling
C & S Engineers

The unique problems associated with nighttime operations
Airports with a dominance of nighttime operations present a unique problem. Often these operations include the noisiest of the Stage 3 aircraft. Also, as capacity limits are approached, more nighttime operations may occur at many airports.

Greg Handy, Alderman
City of Louisville

Sanford Fidell
BBN Technologies

Airport growth vs. land use decisions
Complicating efforts to achieve land use compatibility is the aviation industry's constant growth in the face of past land use decisions, which have often resulted in adjacent development that is incompatible with proposed expansion plans. Effective land use planning requires stable predictions of long-term future noise impacts, which airports are often unable or unwilling to commit to. Community distrust over limits to long-term airport expansion compromises the ability to achieve land use compatibility and delays expansion programs through litigation.

Peter Kirsh, Attorney
Cutler & Stanfield

David Pomper, Attorney
Spiegel & McDiarmid

Defining criteria for noise impacts in land use planning
A major concern for land use planners is defining the criteria that are used to establish a basis for compatible land uses

William Albee
Wyle Labs

Robert Kikillus
Community Program Manager
Port of Seattle Noise Abatement Office

Ashraf Jann
Senior Environmental Specialist
Federal Aviation Administration

Children and noise
Gary Evans
Cornell University

Effects of aircraft noise on children's cognition and long-term learning
Staffan Hygge
KTV Centre for the Built Environment
Laboratory of Applied Psychology
Gavie, Sweden

Questions, answers and discussion

On Wednesday after lunch the University of California will hold its first Airport Air Quality Symposium, lasting through Thursday, February 17. Please note that a separate registration and fee are required for attendance at the Airport Air Quality Symposium. The fee is $175 and includes a buffet reception on Wednesday evening.