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SILENCE. Practicalities of enforcing noise controls at the roadside or on vehicles Steven, Heinz

By: Publication details: Graz AVL List GmbH, 2006Description: 22 sSubject(s): Online resources: Abstract: Within sub-project H practical urban traffic management techniques shall be developed that city authorities can use to reduce traffic noise. The work package will take a holistic view of the policies and legislation used to manage traffic flow, and consider the interactions between traffic management and driver behaviour. It will also examine how systems for monitoring noise emissions from vehicles can play a role in traffic management. The objectives of Work Package H2 are the following. One important tool to reduce traffic noise is the identification of noisy vehicles in the vehicle fleet from the roadside. The development of measurement techniques needed for this identification is one of the main tasks of H2. These techniques will be developed in a way that they can be used as an enforcement and access control tool for local authorities to ensure the lowest appropriate noise levels from the vehicles operating in fleets under their direct or indirect control. Further tasks in this context are the evaluation of the interaction between access control systems and new systems for vehicle noise monitoring and control, the consideration of methods for implementing such methodologies and the assessment of the possibilities to use the noise emission monitoring for traffic management measures aiming at a reduction of the noise exposure. An additional task is the examination of possibilities for the interaction between access control systems (e.g. congestion charging or night time 'lorry bans') and vehicle noise monitoring and control (e.g. limitation of engine speed and engine load in combination with the control of vehicle speed) The review of methods of identifying noisy vehicles to support the enforcement of noise control measures and the necessary measurement methods and techniques includes roadside fleet monitoring systems as well as in-service control methods for single vehicles selected as "noisy" by the monitoring system or roadside spot pre-checks. Other tasks of H2 are related to the other sub-projects H1 and H3: For H1 assessments of the effectiveness of candidate noise reduction measures will be performed using the noise emission calculation model Rotranomo/Tranecam. For H3 gearshift algorithms for low noise driving behaviour will be provided. This report gives an overview of the status of the work on the roadside monitoring system and the development of an in-service control method. In addition the concept for advanced gearshift indicators and/or engine speed and vehicle acceleration limiters is described and some results of the calculation of the effects on noise emission are shown.
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Within sub-project H practical urban traffic management techniques shall be developed that city authorities can use to reduce traffic noise. The work package will take a holistic view of the policies and legislation used to manage traffic flow, and consider the interactions between traffic management and driver behaviour. It will also examine how systems for monitoring noise emissions from vehicles can play a role in traffic management. The objectives of Work Package H2 are the following. One important tool to reduce traffic noise is the identification of noisy vehicles in the vehicle fleet from the roadside. The development of measurement techniques needed for this identification is one of the main tasks of H2. These techniques will be developed in a way that they can be used as an enforcement and access control tool for local authorities to ensure the lowest appropriate noise levels from the vehicles operating in fleets under their direct or indirect control. Further tasks in this context are the evaluation of the interaction between access control systems and new systems for vehicle noise monitoring and control, the consideration of methods for implementing such methodologies and the assessment of the possibilities to use the noise emission monitoring for traffic management measures aiming at a reduction of the noise exposure. An additional task is the examination of possibilities for the interaction between access control systems (e.g. congestion charging or night time 'lorry bans') and vehicle noise monitoring and control (e.g. limitation of engine speed and engine load in combination with the control of vehicle speed) The review of methods of identifying noisy vehicles to support the enforcement of noise control measures and the necessary measurement methods and techniques includes roadside fleet monitoring systems as well as in-service control methods for single vehicles selected as "noisy" by the monitoring system or roadside spot pre-checks. Other tasks of H2 are related to the other sub-projects H1 and H3: For H1 assessments of the effectiveness of candidate noise reduction measures will be performed using the noise emission calculation model Rotranomo/Tranecam. For H3 gearshift algorithms for low noise driving behaviour will be provided. This report gives an overview of the status of the work on the roadside monitoring system and the development of an in-service control method. In addition the concept for advanced gearshift indicators and/or engine speed and vehicle acceleration limiters is described and some results of the calculation of the effects on noise emission are shown.