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Paper on Urban Transport Noise

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Content• Benefits mobility• Shadow side mobility• Factors mobility• Policies needed• Urban planning and

noise• Conclusions• Your input• Discussion

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Aim of the paper

• Overview of factors influencing urban transport

• Provide each member with same information

• Input for future positions, statements, etc.

• Knowledge document

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Mobility, what for?

SHOPPING WORKI

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EDUCATION

LEISURESOCIA

L

SERVICES

HOLIDAYS

DELIVERIES

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Freedom of mobility

5

• 4.5% of GDP EU

• 4.6% employment

• 13% household

budget

• 10-15% of product

price

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The shadow side 1

air pollutioncasualtiestraffic jams (1% GDP)

noiseCO2 emissions

fragmentation urban areas

soil sealingwastedepletion 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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Shadow side 2

7Source EEA

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Percentage exposed > 55dB

1 6 11 16 21 26 31 36 41 46 51 56 61 66 71 76 81 86 91 96 1011061111161211261311361411460%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

120%

% Residents > 55 dB LDEN

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More data

Source EEA

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Conclusions

• 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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And traffic is still growing

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Factors affecting traffic

• 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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Other developments

• 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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What is needed?• 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

Europe

National

Regional

Local

Society

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Towards a new mobility pattern as mobility is indispensible

• 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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Urban planning and Noise• 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

Urban planning and Noise II

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Conclusions• 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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Invitation to:

Google docs (workinggroupnoise@gmail.com)

pw:eurocities

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