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Noise Headlines and Top Story- Updated January 14, 2010
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* Latest Research Presented at the Transportation Research Board Meeting
* Australia Targets Noise in First Aviation White Paper
* Studies Disagree on Potential Health Threats of Wind Turbine Noise
* Van Nuys Airport Noise Program Gains Partial Approval
* Catalog of 2009 Transportation Noise Research
* EPA Considering Final Rule on Hearing Protection Devices
* Hospital Implements Successful Noise Reduction Program
* Bill Would Over-Rule FAA on Burbank Curfew
* New Metric Suggested for Wildlife Noise Studies
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Europe Launches Program to Tackle
Road and Rail Noise Holistically
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The European Union launched a new research project designed to optimize the knowledge, use, and performance of noise reducing devices (NRDs) for surface transportation, such as barriers and claddings. The 13 project partners in QUIESST (QUIetening the Environment for a Sustainable Surface Transport) intend to take a “holistic approach that will consider three fundamental aspects of NRDs: intrinsic, extrinsic, and sustainability.”
QUIESST’s premise is that the global performance of NRDs varies widely, depending on many different factors, including the initial intrinsic acoustic characteristics of the industrial products used and the long-term durability of those characteristics; their relevant design in function of the vehicles, the infrastructure, and the concerned environment; and the entire sound propagation process.
“This innovative holistic approach will allow control [of] the actual global effectiveness, to reduce ground transport noise, to minimize the number of exposed people to noise, to reduce the level of noise exposure, and to make NRDs more sustainable,” according to the organizers. The 36-month project will result in a comprehensive reference guidebook on NRD holistic optimization, including associated databases, simulation methods, measurement methods, and recommendations.
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