EU Projects
WP 3: Consensus building workshops on reducing noise from trains

Objectives:

• Provide the relevant information to build a strategy and reach consensus on the priority action areas for noise source improvements.
  
• Gather information and reach consensus on the optimal balance between source noise reduction and noise abatement.
  
• Discuss the opportunities for the optimisation of rules, legislation and voluntary agreements.
  
• Provide liaison with the STAIRRS project steering group

Tasks

Four workshops will be held during the life of the project involving :

• Railway operators.
  
• Infrastructure managers.
  
• Capacity regulators
  
• UIC / CER / UIP / UNIFE
  
• The EU (Directorate and Future Noise Policy WG members).
  
• National and local authorities.
  
• Industry
  
• Consultants
  
• Universities in addition to consortium members.
  

The project will collaborate with the EU Working Groups assisting in the development of Future Noise Policy, in particular with the Working Group.

Output:

• An agreed policy to reduce noise at source in the most cost effective way, by retrofit, new design solutions and through combinations of measures at source and abatement.
  
• This will be supplemented by information on calculation and simulation models, on expert systems as a tool for management, consensus about policy, strategy, standards, measures and costs.