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Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Technology for a Quieter America. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12928.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Technology for a Quieter America. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12928.
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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

Suggested Citation:"Appendix H: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Academy of Engineering. 2010. Technology for a Quieter America. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12928.
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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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Exposure to noise at home, at work, while traveling, and during leisure activities is a fact of life for all Americans. At times noise can be loud enough to damage hearing, and at lower levels it can disrupt normal living, affect sleep patterns, affect our ability to concentrate at work, interfere with outdoor recreational activities, and, in some cases, interfere with communications and even cause accidents. Clearly, exposure to excessive noise can affect our quality of life.

As the population of the United States and, indeed, the world increases and developing countries become more industrialized, problems of noise are likely to become more pervasive and lower the quality of life for everyone. Efforts to manage noise exposures, to design quieter buildings, products, equipment, and transportation vehicles, and to provide a regulatory environment that facilitates adequate, cost-effective, sustainable noise controls require our immediate attention.

Technology for a Quieter America looks at the most commonly identified sources of noise, how they are characterized, and efforts that have been made to reduce noise emissions and experiences. The book also reviews the standards and regulations that govern noise levels and the federal, state, and local agencies that regulate noise for the benefit, safety, and wellness of society at large. In addition, it presents the cost-benefit trade-offs between efforts to mitigate noise and the improvements they achieve, information sources available to the public on the dimensions of noise problems and their mitigation, and the need to educate professionals who can deal with these issues.

Noise emissions are an issue in industry, in communities, in buildings, and during leisure activities. As such, Technology for a Quieter America will appeal to a wide range of stakeholders: the engineering community; the public; government at the federal, state, and local levels; private industry; labor unions; and nonprofit organizations. Implementation of the recommendations in Technology for a Quieter America will result in reduction of the noise levels to which Americans are exposed and will improve the ability of American industry to compete in world markets paying increasing attention to the noise emissions of products.

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