Urban air mobility (UAM) is a promising transportation frontier, but noise pollution issues are increasingly marginalized. High exposure to aircraft noise can cause hearing damage and anxiety. Additionally, disproportionately afflicted groups’ psychological repercussions exacerbate inequities. This article distills the relationship between projected UAM electric vertical takeoff and landing (EVTOL) aircraft operations and human activity and proposes a new community annoyance noise index based on present rules, population density, and land use to lessen the likelihood of ill-planned air traffic management. This holistic indicator can better inform public health and quality of life in communities near airports that are historically subjected to increased aircraft noise. To demonstrate the efficacy of this new statistic and its application, a Greater Los Angeles trade study was conducted. Hourly operations between postulated vertiports were simulated using three EVTOL aircraft configurations. The findings suggest that for direct vertiport-to-vertiport flight operations the degree to which specific demographics of people are impacted varies with configuration.
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