A SUMMATION AND INHIBITION MODEL OF ANNOYANCE RESPONSE TO MULTIPLE COMMUNITY NOISE SOURCES

摘要

A model of annoyance due to combined noise sources has been developed. The model provides for the summation of the subjective magnitudes of annoyance due to the separate noise sources and for the inhibition of the subjective magnitudes of each source by the presence of the other noise sources. The inhibition process is assumed to mathematically obey a power-group transformation.nThe results of an experiment in which subjects judged the annoyance of 15-minute sessions of combined aircraft and road-traffic noise are compared with the model herein developed and with several other models of combined source annoyance. These comparisons indicated that the model developed herein provides better qualitative and quantitative agreement with experimental responses than the other models. The application of the model to multiple community noises is discussed.