Comments on K. D. Kryter’s paper, ’’Community annoyance from aircraft and ground vehicle noise’’

Abstract

This paper presents a critique of K. D. Kryter’s paper, ’’Community Annoyance from Aircraft and Ground Vehicle Noise’’ [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 72, xxx–xxx (1982)] in which he purports to show that an earlier paper of Schultz, ’’Synthesis of social surveys on noise annoyance’’ [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 64, 377–405 (1978)], significantly underestimates the annoyance associated with aircraft noise, and underestimates that due to surface traffic noise. While the earlier Schultz paper may not be entirely correct, a careful study of Kryter’s new analysis suggests that his conclusions are considerably more dubious than he regards those of Schultz.