USING STATED PREFERENCE TO VALUE NOISE FROM AIRCRAFT IN THREE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

ABSTRACT: This paper reports results from three novel Stated Preference exercises conducted at Manchester, Lyon and Bucharest Airports. It finds that masking the purpose of the exercise produces lower values of aircraft noise than where the purpose of the study is clear. Whilst values split by time period also seem far too high, due to incentives to bias responses, their relativities seem reasonable and provide a means of disaggregating overall values