The aim of this research programme is to reduce noise exposure and noise nuisance for people living near national roads, and to identify methods that could improve the way noise is perceived by these people.

This research programme will examine the following three subthemes:

1. Quieter Tyres, Tyre labelling system and Pavements
2. Optimization and securing the performance of noise barriers
3. Psycho-Acoustics: Improved understanding of people’s subjective reactions to road noise.

Following an open Call between 14 December 2018, and 29 March 2019, the Programme Executive Board subsequently selected three successful projects.

STEER – STrengthening the Effect of quieter tyres on European Roads

Project Partners: Grolimund + Partner AG – environmental engineering (Switzerland), VTI – Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (Sweden), Belgian Road Research Centre (BRRC) (Belgium), SINTEF – Applied research, technology and innovation (Norway), Nokian Renkaat Oyj (Finland).

Project results:

• T3.1 Temperature effects on tyre/road noise measurements
• D3.1 Improving reproducibility of tyre/road noise measurements on ISO test tracks
• T4.1 The influence of tyre inflation pressure and load on noise levels
• D4.1 Recommendations for improved representativity of tyre labelling
• D5 Evaluation of strategies enhancing proliferation of quieter tyres and its implications for NRAs
• Final Project Report

Final Conference presentations:

• STEER Final Conference introductory presentation
• STEER Final Conference demo presentation

SOPRANOISE – Securing and Optimizing the Performance of Road trAffic NB with New methOds and In-Situ Evaluation

Project Partners: Acoustic Technologies (A-Tech) (Belgium), Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (AIT) (Austria), Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) (Germany), University of Bologna, Dept. of Industrial Engineering (DIN) (Italy), European Union Road federation (ERF) (Belgium).

Project results:

• D2.1 – Review of the physical significance of EN 1793-1, EN 1793-2, EN 1793-5 and EN 1793-6
• D2.2 – Final report on the main results of WP2 – Acoustic assessment of the intrinsic performances of noise barriers
• D5.1 – WP5 Intermediate progress report
• Inter-Noise 2020 paper: EU Research on new techniques to characterize Noise Barriers acoustic performances
• Inter-Noise 2021 paper: Characterizing noise barriers - SOPRANOISE half-term progress report
• Inter-Noise 2021 paper: SOPRANOISE – update and analysis of noise barrier database including new current results
• Inter-Noise 2021 paper: Empirical study on the correlation between measurement methods
• D3.1 – Final report on the main results of WP3 – In-situ inspection tools
• D4.2 Report on the validation of the new quick methods in-situ with recommendations
• D5.2 Guidelines for NB use and scientific report
• Final Project Report

Final Conference presentations

• SOPRANOISE Final Conference introductory presentation
• SOPRANOISE Final conference WP3 demo presentation
• SOPRANOISE Final conference WP4 demo presentation
• SOPRANOISE 3 Step approach presentation

FAMOS – FActors MOderating people’s Subjective reactions to road noise

Project Partners: FORCE Technology (Denmark), LÄRMKONTOR GmbH (Germany), SINTEF (Norway).

Project results:

• D1.2 Non-acoustic factors that affect the annoyance response
• D2.2 Soundscape measurements of moderators for perception of road noise
• D2.2 Audio-visual listening test
• D2.2 Mini surveys
• D3.1 Modelling noise annoyance moderators
• D4.5 Guidebook on how to reduce noise annoyance
• Final Project Report
  

   

  Final Conference presentations

  • FAMOS Final Conference introductory presentation
  • FAMOS Noise annoyance from road traffic presentation
  • FAMOS Literature review presentation
  • FAMOS Methods for data collection presentation
  • FAMOS Guidebook presentation
  • FAMOS How to use results presentation

Summary of the Final Programme Conference is available in the Final Conference Report.