Less noise: HELLER supports the LUBW with the ambient noise mapping
Nowadays, the population is exposed to various noise from the direct environment: noise from aircrafts, street and rail traffic as well as manufacturing noise are examples for these pollution. To protect the population and the environment, the European Parliament adopted in 2002 a guideline, which contents are essential to reduce the ambient noise. „The Member States oft he EU are committed to determine the ambient noise and the resulting noise exposure on base of standardized calculation methods every five years“, the responsible project leader in the unit Technical Work and Noise Protection at the Landesanstalt für Umwelt, Messungen und Naturschutz Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) explains. „The results has to be presented and published in the form of strategical noise maps. Later on, the affected local authorities have to create noise campaign plans for the areas with high noise pollution and they have to develop noise-reducing activities. The LUBW is responsible for the noise mapping in Baden-Württemberg outside of overcrowded areas. Therefor we resorted already for the third time to the data, recorded by HELLER.“
HELLER updated the data from 2011, screened the already coded noise insulation arrangements and made corrections, if necessary. In addition, the employees completed the data with new developed noise insulation arrangements. End of November HELLER delivered the results of the examination in form of geo-calibrated files to the LUBW. „To identify the position of each picture for the noise insulation arrangements, we marked the base point, the edge of the lane and the height as well as the characteristics“, Marek Skakuj, General Manager at Heller and leader of the noise protection project reports. „The picture coordinate could be converted to the geographical coordinate and we were able to transfer the data to the noise mapping.“
The noise maps show the level of the noise exposure in the charted areas and where activities has to be developed to counteract the noise. The results are published at the homepage of the LUBW:
