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Airlines and airports face an increasing
number of noise-impact constraints in the future. There are already a large
number of airports worldwide with some type of noise surcharges, and
air-transport industry faces noise-related environmental constraints on future
growth. In other industries, there are conditions under which a market-based
mechanism with transferable permits can be used to provide improved control over
environmental impacts, and at the same time, allow efficient business
operations. MIME is aimed at discovering
whether, and how, such mechanisms can be used to improve environmental noise
control in air transport, especially at airports that have limited capacity due
to noise constraints.
The research project, MIME, is financed
under EU FP6. MIME studies the feasibility of ways to enhance the environmental
performance of the air-transportation system by employing market-based methods
addressing noise control. These methods
are innovative in that they bring an entirely new paradigm to bear on the
control of noise around airports.
The paper will focus on methods to
transfer noise annoyance into tradable permits.