A comparison of community response to aircraft noise at Toronto International and Oshawa Municipal airports

Debate continues over the validity of a single dose-response relationship to describe annoyance due to transportation noise. Doubts about the appropriateness of a single relationship have centred primarily on the issue of differential response to the same noise level for different sources (e.g., aircraft, road traffic and trains). However, recent work suggests that response may vary for different types of the same source, namely aircraft, …