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Noise Pollution has become one of the major environmental concerns for global automotive industry in the current era. Air Induction System (AIS) plays an important role in engine performance and vehicle noise. An ideal design of AIS provides debris free air for combustion and also reduces the engine noise heard at snorkel. Acoustic engineers always face challenges for achieving optimized AIS design with packaging space constraints. Conventionally, AIS optimization is an iterative procedure. This paper emphasizes a one dimensional (1D) approach for optimization of AIS to meet the functional requirements for flow and acoustics. Air flows from the snorkel to the intake manifold whereas the sound propagates in the opposite direction. Suitable design of ducts, air box and resonators are required to attenuate the snorkel noise (SN) to meet the required sound pressure levels.