Samet Feyyaz Hamamci

Noise pollution with the increased entertainment facilities especially in the touristic cities, has been turned out to be one of the major problems that impact the quality of life all over the world. Antalya is the most prominent tourism center in Turkey with its historical places, beaches and crowded entertainment areas. Entertainment life in Antalya is more dynamic and versatile than an usual touristic city with beaches parties, hotel discos, wedding ceremonies and night clubs. Emphasis in this paper is placed on conducting computer simulation using the SoundPLAN 7.3 to assess the noise exposure levels sourced by above 600 entertainment facilities such as discos, bars and pubs etc. in the city center of Antalya. The levels of entertainment noise exposure in the city was calculated according to the European Noise Directive. Almost all of the entertainment places located at the sea side, therefore the most affected population from the entertainment noise live close to these regions....

Airports are the one of major contributors to noise pollution in cities. As feasible transportation to the airports is desired, cities have been enlarged very close to airports since their establishment. In this paper, noise levels around Izmir Adnan Menderes Airport and Ankara Esenboga Airport were evaluated according to the European Noise Directive (END) and by using annoyance and sleep-disturbance indices. These airports are two of the biggest ones in Turkey and both have similar flight statistics. Hot spot analysis results were used for land use planning, assessment of noise effects on public health and determination of noise reduction measures to be used for Noise Action Plans implemented by local authorities. The percentages of people annoyed (% A), highly annoyed (% HA) and highly sleep disturbed (% HSD) were estimated to determine the effects of both airports’ noise on people's health. Hot spot scores of two airports were calculated and compared with each other, which we...