Noise and Vibration

Our acoustical engineering services include noise and vibration screening, detailed noise modeling, and impact analyses in the following categories:

• Civilian airports
• Department of Defense (DoD) airfield installations
• Joint use airfields
• Military training routes (MTR) 
• Special use airspace (SUA) and military operating areas (MOA)
• Sonic booms
• Munitions use and blast noise
• Ground vehicles
• Railway vehicles
• Construction operations 

We have extensive experience performing environmental noise and impact analysis for NEPA projects for both civilian and military aviation actions. 

For areas experiencing noise impacts and/or increased annoyance due to noise, we provide noise mitigation and abatement solutions including operational mitigation measures and active mitigation measures, such as the implementation of outdoor sound barriers.

Modeling noise impacts that are associated with various projects in and around airports and the US National Airspace System (NAS) is as the heart of RoVolus' capability, and the team has extensive experience with formulating and designing modeling scenarios, executing those scenarios, and creating detailed, professional documents reporting the results of modeling activities. Modeling software systems supported by RoVolus include:

• Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT)
• Noisemap
• MR_NMAP
• AAM
• BooMap
• PCBoom
• SARNAM
• BNOISE
• FHWA Traffic Noise Model
• FHWA rail noise and vibration models

Noise analyses performed adhere to the following standards and impact criteria:

• FAA Order 1050.1F (Environmental Impacts: Policies and Procedures)
• DoDI 4715.13 (DoD Noise Program)
• AFI 32-7070 (Air Force Noise Program)
• FTA Report No. 0123 (Transit Noise and Vibration Impact Assessment Manual)