Assessment of environmental noise due to aircraft operation at the CORFU international airport according to the 2002/49/EC Directive and the new Greek National Legislation

Abstract

Environmental Noise annoyance - especially from airports operation - is widely accepted as an end-point of environmental noise that can be taken as a basis for evaluating the impact of noise on the exposed population. CORFU (island of Corfu - Greece) International Airport is one of the most developing, functional airports in Greece, and constitutes one of the preferred tourist destination in southeastern Europe. Environmental Noise from aircraft movements at the Airport is a crucial environmental factor of the urban environment and life the quality especially in Southern European countries where climatic conditions favors outdoor activities & the night life. The ministry of the Environment, Energy & Climate Change of Greece (YPEKA) in collaboration with the University of Thessaly completed a comparative Study on Aircraft Noise - according to the European Directive 49/2002 (ED 2002/49, 2002) - for the 2013 Strategic Noise Maps (SNM) for both EU indicators Lden and Lnight using appropriate software and relevant data bases e.g. INM & AzB08 (CadnaA). A full questionnaire analysis was also completed in order to evaluate population exposure and reaction to eventual annoyance climate. Copyright © (2015) by EAA-NAG-ABAV, ISSN 2226-5147 All rights reserved