ASA TR S12.9-Part 6-2018 PDF Download

This ASA Technical Report provides the rationale for the recommendation by Working Group S12/WG 15 to withdraw the 2008 ANSI/ASA Standard "Quantities and Procedures for Description and Measurement of Environmental Sound -- Part 6: Methods for Estimation of Awakenings Associated with Outdoor Noise Events Heard in Homes." The decision to withdraw the standard is based in part on the relatively small and non-representative corpus of field observations of noise-induced behavioral awakening available for analysis; on the poor generalizability of predicted awakening rates from airport to airport; on practical experience with the limited utility of predictions of "at least one behavioral awakening per night" for purposes of assessing environmental noise impacts, as required by the National Environmental Policy Act; on the statistical assumptions of convenience and post hoc analysis methods used to generate predictions of awakenings; on information published subsequent to development of the original standard; and on the findings of peer-reviewed re-analyses of the findings on which the original standard was based.