EU Projects
WP 1: Railway noise strategy support system

Objectives:

The Work Package will develop cost/benefit software. This can be used to assess various noise reduction options (such as optimised wheels, new brake blocks and size/position of barriers) in order to work out the optimal combination of noise reduction strategies which could be applied either at national or European level.

Tasks:

• Specifying and building up a common European database
  
• Specifying and developing the cost/benefit software decision support system
  
• Building an interface with national and other noise databases
  
• Data collection
  
• Producing the Optimisation algorithm
  
• Extrapolating data to cover the entire European network
  
• Carrying out the cost benefit calculation

Output:

• A comprehensive decision support system for noise policy makers capable of carrying out the assessments shown above, supported by a European rail traffic database (including noise characteristics), topographical maps and comprehensive cost data for the different noise reduction options.