Applying community tolerance level to high-energy impulse sounds

Fidell, Schultz and Green [JASA 84, pp. 2109-2113 (1988)] and Green and Fidell [JASA 89, pp. 234-243 (1991)] suggested a systematic approach to distinguishing loudness-driven from community-specific contributions to the prevalence of transportation noise-induced annoyance. Schomer [JASA 86, pp. 835-836 (1989)] showed how the approach could be adapted to predicting community response to high amplitude impulsive noise, simply by changing the exponent of the dosage-response function. The current presentation demonstrates in a more accessible fashion that the basic approach identified in the 1989 paper can be applied to predicting community response to high amplitude impulsive noise. The approach builds on an application by Schomer et al. [JASA 131, pp. 2772-2786 (2012)] of the CTL approach to road and rail traffic noise. The latter paper explains the “Community Tolerance Level” method from the perspective of an observer watching a process, rather than as a participant in the process. These principles are use...