A draft of the report from TSG 1 has been prepared and is under review. TSG 1 is currently inactive.

After several years of efforts, the Board of Directors and the General Assembly decided during INTER-NOISE 06 that the work of TSG 2 should be terminated and the TSG disbanded with thanks. The Convener of TSG 2 transmitted the material that had been gathered on noise labels to the Co-Conveners of TSG 7 for possible use by that Technical Study Group.

The final report from TSG 3 was published in 2009 July, and a link to the document is available below. With publication of the final report, the TSG was disbanded with thanks.

At the meetings of the I-INCE Board of Directors and the General Assembly in 2006 December in Honolulu, it was proposed that the work of TSG 4 be terminated and the TSG disbanded because of a lack of progress. A decision to terminate the work of TSG 4 was taken at the meetings of the Board of Directors and the General Assembly in 2007 August in Istanbul. The TSG was then disbanded with thanks.

The final report from TSG 5 was published in the 2006 September-October issue of the Noise Control Engineering Journal, and is available below. With publication of the final report, the work of TSG 5 was complete and the TSG was disbanded with thanks.

TSG 6 met during INTER-NOISE Congresses in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009. At the meeting in 2007 August, a preliminary working draft of a report was presented for review by members of TSG 6. The only request for change in this previous draft which was expressed during the INTER-NOISE 2007 TSG 6 meeting was for a section discussing the current state-of-knowledge concerning the effects of community noise on people in affected communities. In preparation for the planned meeting of this TSG during INTER-NOISE 2009, this section was added using materials from an international Workshop sponsored by ICAO CAEP in Montreal during 2007 October. Thus, with this new addition to the TSG 6 Final Report, it is expected that there will be a TSG 6 consensus supporting I-INCE publication of this document, contingent upon the final review currently being conducted.

An organizing meeting for TSG 7 was held during INTER-NOISE 06 in Honolulu, Hawaii. A second meeting was held during INTER-NOISE 07 in Istanbul, Turkey. The third meeting of TSG 7 was held at INTER-NOISE 2008 in Shanghai with ten persons present and Bill Lang, co-convener, presiding. The redirection of TSG7 was discussed. The co-convener described in depth the CAETS noise study project which started in 2008 June in Southampton, U.K., with a transportation noise source workshop and continued with a forum in Ottawa, Canada, in 2009 August which covered other noise sources worldwide. Following the above two presentations, there was a discussion during which the TSG7 members asked questions to further clarify the new role of TSG7. There was an enthusiastic response from the members regarding this new scope. The new mission of TSG7 is to prepare a report which will include the findings from both the Southampton workshop and the Ottawa forum using the information in the source books from both meetings. This report will have three chapters: Inform the Public, Inform the Engineers, and Inform the Policymakers. At this time drafts of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 (Southampton results only) have been prepared. The purpose of this report will be to provide background material for the CAETS Council on the technology currently available and that which is needed to quiet the world’s predominant noise sources. One of the results of the above activities will be a short statement from the CAETS Council to its member societies for dissemination to those policy makers, industries, and NGOs in their countries that are concerned with the noise issue. The TSG 7 met on Sunday, 2009 August 23, in Ottawa. The work of TSG7 was discussed in the light of the comments received from the CAETS Council.

In 2007, the Member Societies of I-INCE were invited to appoint expert members to TSG 8. The objectives of TSG 8 were discussed during a Workshop at the meeting of the International Commission on Acoustics (ICA) held in Madrid, Spain in 2007 September. Attendees interested in the objective of TSG 8 were asked to indicate their interest to the Secretariat of the I-INCE Member Society of their country. It was decided that such a report would be outdated before it was distributed; therefore, TSG 8 would not serve a worthwhile purpose and the effort to form an active Technical Study Group was abandoned. Instead, an I-INCE Task Force on education was formed. The goal is to distribute information on education of noise-control engineers and to provide a link on the I-INCE website for this information with further links to universities worldwide offering such a curriculum.