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2014 Compact

Noise abatement Improving the noise situation in neighboring residential areas and reducing the number of people impacted by noise. Objective: Reducing the proportional number of people affected by aircraft noise in light of the planned capacity expansion to 701,000 aircraft movements (nighttime protection zone = 183,026 inhabitants, daytime protection zone 1 = 28,980 inhabitants) Duration: Until capacity has been exhausted Measure Status Further development of selected runway and route utilization for landings (dedicated runway operations, DROps) to create breaks from noise >> Original DROps concept successfully tried and tested >> Measure limited by the introduction of a nighttime flight ban >> New “DROps early morning” concept in regular operation since June 28, 2013: Change in usage remains, application limited to first hour of operation, however >> With regard to operational direction 25, landing runway 25 is used for 99 % of takeoffs on DROps days, thus implementing the DROps concept. Putting into regular operation of the raising of the approach angle to 3.2 with ILS (instrument landing system) on the new Runway Northwest >> Trial operation since October 18, 2012 >> Monitoring program carried out by DLR; maximum levels of noise reduc- tion at the monitoring measurement sites between 0.5 and 1.2 db(A) >> Putting into regular operation recommended by Aircraft Noise Commission Introduction of a system for a satellite-supported, ground- based augmentation system (GBAS) Development of GBAS-based, noise-reducing approach procedures >> Cooperation agreement concluded with DFS to set up the systems, initial groundbreaking on October 17, 2013 for ground station, commissioning on September 3, 2014. In the meantime, GBAS allows the approach angle on all landing runways to be raised from the current 3.0 to 3.2 degrees, which has since then been possible on Runway Northwest. In the long term, the new landing system should also enable segmented approaches – with the goal of further noise abatement in the region. >> In development Objective: Improving the noise situation of the affected population Duration: 2020 Measure Status Offer to acquire residential properties as part of the Casa 2 program in transition zones I + II >> Owners of real estate situated within the Casa catchment area had the opportunity until October 31, 2014 to submit an application for a buyout or compensation payment. To date, 250 residential properties have been bought as part of the Casa program and 266 compensation payments have been made. The package of measures in the Casa program amounts to a total of more than €100 million. >> The vacancy rate of residential properties is less than 10 % for leases typical for the area.  Provision of funds for passive noise abatement for private households and eligible public institutions as part of the Regional Fund >> Funding guidelines were determined by the Federal State of Hesse on December 31, 2012. Funds are available. The public is informed by means of press releases. There are 23 eligible institutions that could benefit from this. Continuation of dialog with stakeholders from the region in the “Airport and Region Forum” in order to develop further measures >> Joint monitoring and attainment of a positive vote for the regular operati- on of the following measures: •• Raising the landing angle from 3.0 to 3.2 degrees for the northwest runway (in dependent and independent operation) •• Raising downwind flights by 1,000 feet •• The relocation of turning areas in the Mainz and Offenbach region (= raising of minimum flyover altitudes in this area) •• The raising of flight altitudes from 4,000 to 5,000 feet in dependent operation as part of an ILS extension (since 2013) >> Continuation of the “steeper approach” research project and the development of flight procedures for GBAS Supporting the Noise Impact Study initiated by the Environment and Neighborhood House >> Module 3 of the NORAH study (“Noise-Related Annoyance, Cognition, and Health”) has been concluded, and the results were presented in November 2014. In module 3, the focus was on the investigation of the reading abilities of elementary schoolchildren in second grade with regard to aircraft noise pollution. The other modules are in the survey or evaluation phases. VIII Sustainability Program 2014

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