Presentation for Working Group Noise at Lyon meeting spring 2013.

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Paper on Urban Transport Noise

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• Benefits mobility
• Shadow side mobility
• Factors mobility
• Policies needed
• Urban planning and
noise
• Conclusions
• Your input
• Discussion

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• Overview of factors influencing urban
transport
• Provide each member with same
information
• Input for future positions, statements,
etc.
• Knowledge document

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SHOPPING
WORKING
EDUCATION
LEISURE
SOCIAL
SERVICES
HOLIDAYS
DELIVERIES

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• 4.5% of GDP EU
• 4.6% employment
• 13% household
budget
• 10-15% of product
price

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air pollution
casualties
traffic jams (1% GDP)
noise
CO2 emissions
fragmentation urban
areas
soil sealing
waste
depletion of resources
• health effects
• uneasiness
• diseases/deaths
• annoyance
• sleep disturbance
• urban sprawl
• loss of fertile land
• high costs
• future threats
• climate change

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Source EEA

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% Residents > 55 dB LDEN

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Source EEA

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• Urban areas/cities are hit the hardest
• Traffic noise is the culprit
• Long term exposure >> irreversible
health & economic damage
• Traffic is expected to increase
• ± 70 million > 55 dB LDEN
• ± 50 million > 50 dB LNIGHT

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• globalisation
• population growth
• individualisation
• ageing
• prosperity
• Intensification
• flexibilisation
• computerisation
• ‘informalisation’
• labour participation
• Increased free time
• spatial spread of work-
living- services
• desire to be independent in time
and space
• psychological
• sociological
• manoeuvrability
• 24-7 economy
• life- expectancy
• education
• pattern social activities
• urban structure

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• Improving infrastructure
• Expanding infrastructure
• Negative media attention by PT
failure
• Deterioration society and facilities
– Feelings unsafe (areas, time of the
day,..)
• Et cetera

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• Source policy (EU/UN)
– Stricter ELV
– Funding
– Legislation
• National/regional policies
– Legislation
– Funding
• Local policies/measures
– Car free zones/restricted zones/designated zones or roads
– Urban planning/quiet road surfaces/
• Awareness/behaviour change
– Public Transport
– Walking/Biking
– Quieter/cleaner cars

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• Promote sustainable ways of transportation
• Provoke citizens, groups and entrepreneurs to chose ST
• Reward sustainable transportation (tangible/visible)
• Allow ST to dedicated areas as exemption
• Stimulate, fiscal or financial (user/polluter principle)
• Force enterprises /institutes to choose for ST of
employees and goods (permitting, ordinance,..)
• Forbid/restrict car access (times and places)
• Improved Public Transport (comfortable, facilities, etc.)
• Authorities should be a shining example

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• Intensification urbanisation (80% rule, less car use)
• Speed up actions proposed by European Union regarding
curbing fossil fuelled cars by 2030 and 2050
• Improve availability and quality of Public Transport
• Facilities for quiet and clean vehicles such as
– Free parking place
– Free electric charging poles
– Better access to facilities
• Limited parking space (housing, offices)
• Sustainable good deliveries (clean,
quiet, energy friendly)

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• Road design
– Road profile & Quiet road surface
– Positioning lanes, service- and biking/walking lanes
– Optimised for less annoyance (road network)
• Neighbourhood design
– Car restricted/free
– PT stops at short distance, nodes to connect
– Quiet Areas and Green
• Orientation and lay-out of sensitive buildings
– Closed façades/ double façades/
– Internal shielding (offices-dwellings)
– Sensitive rooms at the back (quiet) side

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• We cannot stop car mobility, no way to ban the iron
horse at all, it’s valuable for economy, quality of life, etc
• It’s hard to change human behaviour [INTERNOISE2010]
• should pull and push?
• educate and (re-)socialisation
• Urbanisation helps a little (80% and less car use)
• Sustainable Urban Mobility is a must! SUMP’s
• (Plug-in) Hybrids and Electric Vehicles are allowed to
enter urban areas; Conventionally fuelled cars are
presumably prohibited as from 2030-2050 (EU), are
there ways to speed up?
• Source policies, where are they?

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Google docs (workinggroupnoise@gmail.com)
pw:eurocities
Google drive

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