Noise Reduction in the Railway Corridor Rotterdam-Genoa: Observations within the Project CODE24

Sebastian Wilske ()
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Sebastian Wilske: Regional Planning Association of the Middle Upper Rhine

A chapter in Integrated Spatial and Transport Infrastructure Development, 2016, pp 263-271 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The noise emissions of railway traffic, especially of the freight traffic are of the main challenges to gain acceptance for projects to improve the capacity of the corridor—infrastructural projects as well as operational measures. Even decision makers, planners as well as many affected persons have a lack of basic knowledge regarding on the impacts of noise and especially on the ways of function of noise mitigation measures. Hence the decision making procedures have to be improved in the aspects of objectivity, transparency and traceability. Therefore, CODE24 gave an overview on the approaches in the field of noise protection along the corridor. Some commonalities showed up. Particularly, despite the priority of noise reduction on the source in all legal regulations, in all countries “classic” noise mitigation measures are dominant, especially noise protection walls. The allocation of funds and activities hence does not correspond to the objectively given possibilities for reductions of the impacts of railway noise. The acceptance in the public in many cases is low. The workshops and the survey showed indications, that this can be explained by a lack of knowledge on the on the ways of function of the different noise mitigation measures. CODE24 showed possibilities to strengthen the knowledge basis (toolbox) and especially to give a new and innovative approach (auralisation) to the resulting effects of noise mitigation measures that is much more transparent, traceable and intuitive than conventional ways of providing information, e.g. maps or numerical studies. All discussions with decision makers and planners within CODE24 showed that noise mitigation concepts in the future have to be considered in an open and fair dialogue with the affected persons and will contain different sets of specific measures that are optimised for the given, from region to region significantly different situations along the corridor. CODE24 showed that all these target groups expect substantial improvements by the application of auralisations in these planning and participation processes in the future. The different bottlenecks along the corridor are starting points for the implementation.

Keywords: Freight Transport; Rolling Stock; Core Assumption; Project CODE24; Freight Train (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15708-5_15

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