Factors Affecting the Annoyance of Combinations of Noise Sources

The smelling of annoyance due tocombinations of noises, such as aircraft or impulse in a traffic background, has been discussed in an earlier paper I where it was concluded that an 'energy summation' model, based on the total Lneq of all sources, does not account for annoyance reactions.The 'dominant source model.where total annoyance is governed by the subjectively dominant source, was suggested as having more potential application but was in need of further verification.This paper explores the possibility in the light of newly acquired laboratory and field data. ANNOYING! RESPONSESModels for the prediction of annoyance due to combinations of noises should make allowance for both 'source specific' and 'total' annoyance