UPDATING A DOSAGE EFFECT RELATIONSHIP FOR THE PREVALENCE OF ANNOYANCE DUE TO GENERAL TRANSPORTATION NOISE

More than a decade has passed since a relationship between community noise exposure and the prevalence of annoyance was synthesized by Schultz [T. J. Schultz., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 64, 377-405 (1978)] from the findings of a dozen social surveys. This quantitative dosage-effect relationship has been adopted as a standard means for predicting noise-induced annoyance in environmental assessment documents. The present effort updates the 1978 relationship with findings of social surveys conducted since its publication. Although the number of data points from which a new relationship was inferred more than tripled, the 1978 relationship still provides a reasonable fit to the data.