The outputs are tailored to the requirements of regulations such as the EU MSFD directive. It also allows mapping scenarios of noisy activities at sea to predict their impacts. Application: This study highlights the different Geographic Information System techniques applied for the noise mapping. It provides for example real time noise and monthly statistical noise maps from shipping. The interpolation methods available in GIS can develop noise contour maps. The output results of the computer noise models can add as input data for a GIS. Findings: In study of road traffic noise mapping, noise levels have been predicted using a specially developed noise computer models.
Noise emission levels are calculated from many sound propagation models like ISO 9613:1996, Calculation of Road Traffic Noise (CoRTN 88), Harmonoise Noise Prediction Algorithm and Nord 2000. Methods: Interpolation (krigging) method can be used to develop different noise contour maps. This study highlights the different models used for noise mapping using GIS. WHO, 2018, WHO environmental noise guidelines for the European region, World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen accessed 7 December 2018.Objectives: Road traffic noise pollution is identified as one of the serious alarms that influence the attribute of the urban regions. WHO and JRC, 2011, Burden of disease from environmental noise - quantification of healthy life years lost in Europe, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland accessed. Hänninen, O., et al., 2014, ‘Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe: Assessing Nine Risk Factors in Six Countries’, Environmental Health Perspectives 122(5), pp. The EEA has also used END data to make an assessment of the likely extent of areas yet to be affected by noise pollution in a report entitled Quiet Areas in Europe.ġ.
The same data are available for download via the EEA data service and can be viewed interactively on the EEA Noise Observation and Information Service for Europe, which also presents noise contour maps for major sources and cities in Europe.Ĭountry specific fact sheets illustrating END data and estimating the likely health impacts due to noise in EEA member countries have also been published. In assisting with the implementation of the END, the EEA works closely with the European Topic Centreon Air Pollution, Transport, Noise and Industrial pollution and with EEA's country network, Eionet.ĭata on noise exposure and associated action plans reported in accordance with the END have been used to make an assessment of environmental Noise in Europe. The Electronic Noise Data Reporting Mechanism was devised by the EEA in 2007 in order to facilitate the reporting of noise data in line with the principles set out in the Shared Environmental Information System for Europe and in accordance with the specifications for a spatial data infrastructure for Europe. Most of the current activities relate to data reporting and assessment as required by the END. Noise emissions is a priority work area in the mandate of the EEA. In order to achieve this objective, an updated EU noise policy aligned with the latest scientific knowledge, and measures to reduce noise at source, including improvements in city design should be implemented. The 7 th EAP further contains the objective that by 2020, noise pollution in the EU will have significantly decreased, moving closer to WHO recommended levels. This is the results of the noise mapping (round 3) of the major roads carried for the EPA under EU Directive 2002/49/EC. Tarrero, Mara Machimbarrena, Julio Gonzlez, Valentn Gonzlez de Garibay. The EU’s Seventh Environmental Action Programme (7 th EAP) highlights the fact that a majority of Europeans living in major urban areas are exposed to high levels of noise at which adverse health effects frequently occur. A methodology to study noise annoyance and to perform Action Plans follow up using as input an existing survey and noise map: Application to the city of Mlaga (Spain) M. The Directive introduced two key indicators for annoyance and sleep disturbance, which, if exceeded, require action plans to be drawn up that are designed to reduce exposure and protect areas not yet polluted by noise. The introduction of the Environmental Noise Directive (END) in 2002 sought to monitor the effectiveness of EU emission controls by requiring the assessment of environmental noise at Member State level. More recently, measures to control noise from operations and airports, and the regulation of industrial facilities’ noise levels have broadened the control of environmental noise. Maximum noise limits for motor vehicles, household appliances and outdoor equipment date back to the 1970s. Emissions of noise at source have been regulated in the EU for many years.