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Appendix H
Acronyms and Abbreviations
%HA percentage (of persons) highly annoyed
AC asphalt concrete
ACARE Advisory Council for Aeronautical Research in Europe
ACTIVE International Symposium on Active Control of Sound and Vibration
ACUS Administrative Conference of the United States
ADC40 Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation-Related Noise and Vibration
ADOT Arizona Department of Transportation
A|D|S Aerospace|Defence|Security (see SBAC)
AHAAH Auditory Hazard Assessment Algorithm for Humans
AHAM American Home Appliance Manufacturers
AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
AIP American Institute of Physics
AMCA Air Moving and Conditioning Association
AMT Association for Manufacturing Technology
ANASE Attitudes to Noise from Aviation Sources in England
ANR active noise reduction
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ANTLE advanced near-term low emissions
AREMA American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association
ARI Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute
ASC Accredited Standards Committee
ASEL A-weighted sound exposure level
ASHA American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
ASHE American Society for Healthcare Engineering
ASHRAE American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers
AST advanced subsonic transport
ASTM American Society for Testing and Materials
ATIS Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions
AUD Australian dollar
BBN Bolt, Beranek and Newman
CAD computer-aided design
CAETS International Council of Engineering and Technical Societies
CALM Community Noise Research Strategy Plan (European Union)
CBA cost-benefit analysis
CDoT California Department of Transportation
CE Conformité Européenne
CEI Central European Initiative
CEN European Committee for Standardization
CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
CENYC Council of the Environment of New York City
CFD computational fluid dynamics
CFR Code of Federal Regulations
CPRE Campaign to Protect Rural England
CPSC Consumer Product Safety Commission
CRRs commuter railroads
CRS Congressional Research Service
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CU Consumers Union
dB decibel
DEFRA Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DENL day-evening-night average sound level
DEP Department of Environmental Protection (New York City)
DHHS U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
DIA Denver International Airport
DNL day-night-average sound level
DNW Dutch Anechoic Wind Tunnel
DOD U.S. Department of Defense
DOL U.S. Department of Labor
DOT U.S. Department of Transportation
DRA duct resonator array
EA European Co-operation for Accreditation
EC European Commission
ECMA formerly the European Computer Manufacturers Association, now only ECMA
END Environmental Noise Directive
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
EPNdB effective perceived noise level decibels
EPNL effective perceived noise level
ER exchange rate
EU European Union
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FEHRL Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories
FGI Facility Guidelines Institute
FHWA Federal Highway Administration
FICAN Federal Interagency Committee on Aircraft Noise
FICON Federal Interagency Committee on Noise
FICUN Federal Interagency Committee on Urban Noise
FRA Federal Railroad Administration
FTA Federal Transit Administration
FTAG Federal Transportation Advisory Group
GAO Government Accountability Office
GDP gross domestic product
GPSG German Equipment and Product Safety Act
GSA General Services Administration
GSIG Global Standards and Information Group
HARMONOISE Project to predict environmental noise levels caused by road and railway traffic (European Union)
HEATCO Harmonized European Approaches for Transport Costing and Product Assessment Studies (consortium)
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HPD hearing protection device
HSR high-speed passenger railroads
HWB hybrid wing body
ICAO International Civil Aviation Association
ICBEN International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise
IEC International Electrotechnical Commission
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IIC Impact-Insulation Class
I-INCE International Institute of Noise Control Engineering
ILAC International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation
IMAGINE Project to produce noise maps (European Union)
INCE/USA Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the U.S.A.
INTER-NOISE International Congress on Noise Control Engineering
ISEA International Safety Equipment Association
IOM Institute of Medicine
ISO International Organization for Standardization
ISVR Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (United Kingdom)
IT information technology
ITD integrated technology demonstrators
JPDO Joint Planning and Development Office
KBDN Kitchen and Bath Design News
LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
LEMA Laboratory for Electromagnetics and Acoustics
LHH League for the Hard of Hearing (now Center for Hearing and Communication)
LRT light rail transit
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MSHA Mine Safety and Health Administration
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NAE National Academy of Engineering
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NAW Noise Action Week
NCAC National Council of Acoustical Consultants
NCEJ Noise Control Engineering Journal
NCHRP National Cooperative Highway Research Program
NCSI National Center for Standards Certification Information
NDI noise depreciation index
NDSI noise depreciation sensitivity index
NEF noise exposure forecast
NIH National Institutes of Health
NIHL noise-induced hearing loss
NIOSH National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
NIPTS noise-induced permanent threshold shift
NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology
NNI noise and number index
NNI Noise/News International
NOISE-CON National Conference on Noise Control Engineering
NPS National Park Service
NRR noise reduction rating
NVLAP National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OGAC open-grade asphalt concrete
OMB Office of Management and Budget
ONAC Office of Noise Abatement and Control
ONCC O’Hare Noise Compatibility Commission
OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHRC Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy
PARTNER Partnership for Air Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction
PCC Portland cement concrete
PEL permitted exposure level
PIRG Public Information Research Group
PnDB unit of perceived noise level
PNL perceived noise level
PPE personal protective equipment
QPPP Quiet Pavement Pilot Program
QTD Quiet Technology Demonstrator Program
R&D research and development
RRT rapid rail transit
SAE Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE International)
SAX-40 Silent Aircraft Initiative
SBAC Society of British Aerospace Companies (through a merger, now ADS)
SEL sound exposure level
SILENCE Aircraft Noise Reduction Project (European Union)
SILVIA based on silenda via (the road must be silent)
SMA stone matrix asphalt
SME Society of Mechanical Engineers
STAIRRS Strategies and Tools to Assess and Implement Noise-Reducing Measures for Railway Systems
STC sound transmission class
TC43/SC1 (ISO) Technical Committee 43 Subcommittee 1 (Noise)
TGV train à grande vitesse (France)
TNM Traffic Noise Model
TPNRC Tire-Pavement Noise Research Consortium
TRB Transportation Research Board
TTS temporary threshold shift
TÜV Technischer Überwachungs-Verein (Germany)
TWA time-weighted average
TWINS track-wheel interaction noise system
UHBR ultra high bypass ratio
UL Underwriters Laboratories
UNECE United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
USAF U.S. Air Force
USC U.S. Code
USCB U.S. Census Bureau
USD U.S. dollar
USTR U.S. Trade Representative
VCA Vehicle Certification Agency (United Kingdom)
VITAL EnVIronmenTALly
WG1 Working Group on Noise Indicators
WG2 Working Group on Socio-Economic Aspects of Noise
WHO World Health Organization
WTA willingness to accept
WTP willingness to pay
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