Project description
New methodologies to cope with aviation noise annoyance
Aircraft noise affects quality of life and public health in airport neighbourhoods. The EU-funded ANIMA project aims to develop new methodologies and tools to manage and mitigate the impact of aviation noise in a continuously growing traffic demand environment. The project will assess noise impacts and current management practices to establish guidelines for best practices in effectively managing annoyance beyond the Balanced Approach of the International Civil Aviation Organisation. Additionally, it will conduct pilot studies and surveys to evaluate new methodologies for reducing the effects of noise. In this regard, ANIMA will create a noise management toolset and engage a pan-European network of experts and project leaders to develop a strategic research roadmap for reducing aviation noise.
Objective
Aircraft noise continues to cause adverse effects on quality of life and public health in airports’ neighbourhood. To address this challenge and ensure airports will have the capability to respond to the growing traffic demand, ANIMA aims to develop new methodologies and tools to manage and mitigate the impact of aviation noise, improving the quality of life near airports while facilitating airports growth and competitiveness of the EU aviation sector within the environmental limits, also considering 24/7 operations. Hence, ANIMA carries out critical review and assessment of noise impacts and existing management practices to establish best practices’ guidelines for an effective management of annoyance beyond ICAO Balanced Approach (WP2); develops a better understanding to address community annoyance, sleep disturbance and improve quality of life through pilot studies and surveys, assessing new methodologies reducing annoyance, testing novel and cost-effective solutions for land-use planning, using also mobile applications, the whole to derive new indicators (WP3); develops a 24/7 Noise Management Toolset to empower non-specialists with decision support capability and a 24/7 Design Toolset for researchers (WP4); tests and validates with end-users (airports and community) an “Aviation noise community platform”, gathering tools and best practices, facilitating consensus building and engaging communities in the mitigation process, ensuring exploitation of the results (WP5); supports the coordination of national and EU research activities, establishing a common strategic research roadmap for aviation noise reduction through the involvement of a pan-European network of experts and project leaders, also addressing international collaboration opportunities (WP6). ANIMA, a 4-year cost-effective project (total budget 7 479 618 €) builds on its consortium’s multidisciplinary excellence gathering 21 partners (Industry, SMEs, RTOs, Universities, airports and local authorities) from 11 countries.
Fields of science
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaircraft
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineeringaerospace engineeringaeronautical engineering
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and management
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
91120 Palaiseau
France
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Participants (21)
M15 6BH Manchester
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1059 CM Amsterdam
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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75015 Paris
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31060 Toulouse
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18613 Motril
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
1111 Budapest
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51147 Koln
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75019 PARIS
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
75013 PARIS
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
TW6 2GW London
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061126 Bucharest 6
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03068 Kyiv
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1000 Ljubljana
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700750 IASI
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1118 ZG Luchthaven Schiphol
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MK9 1BP Milton Keynes
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00154 Roma
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95011 Cergy-Pontoise
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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58093 Hagen
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.