BRUSSELS LIFE PROJECT: NOISE MAPPING AS A TOOL FOR MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING ROAD TRAFFIC NOISE IN URBAN AREA

Carried out for a city of one million of inhabitants on a 160 krn area, including 220,000 buildings and 2,000 km of streets, the Brussels noise mapping required a wide work of collection of data and the collaboration of various departments of the regional administrations but also expertise on GIS and noise calculation software. The first results are already used by district administrations, transport, to solve "hot spots", to test new traffic management solutions. As tool of communication, the maps have to be understandable by politicians and citizens. It's the reason why it has been decided not only to produce noise maps with dB(A) indications but to cross land use maps, population maps with noise maps. The results are more useful to establish priorities of actions and to communicate on a non technical way. In the main frame of the European Noise Directive (END), such project takes into account since the beginning the content of the END (Indicators Lden& Lnight, periods, calculation methods). The challenges are real: - To adapt the methodology of work to the requirements of stakeholders; - To maintain the collaboration between the actors and users; - To ensure a good communication and an optimal level of information to citizens; - To transfer the methodology of the project to other European cities. (A) For the covering abstract see ITRD E113232.

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  VOORWEG 105-A
  ZOETERMEER,   Netherlands  NG 2715
• Authors:
  • BOURBON, C
  • NOEL, P
  • MUMMENTHEY, R D
• Conference:
  • INTER-NOISE 2001 - ABSTRACTS FROM INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS AND EXHIBITION ON NOISE CONTROL ENGINEERING
  • Location: THE HAGUE , Netherlands
  • Date: 2001-8-27 to 2001-8-30
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 1443-6

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Maps; Noise; Planning; Strategic planning; Traffic; Traffic control; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: Belgium
• ITRD Terms: 8008: Belgium; 8525: Conference; 4074: Map; 2492: Noise; 143: Planning; 141: Priority (gen); 755: Traffic; 654: Traffic control; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Environment; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00928710
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 9-806554-1-4
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Aug 2 2002 12:00AM