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Description
Noise protection measures are a central component of modern infrastructure planning; however, they are increasingly subject to a tension between acoustic effectiveness and societal acceptance. While conventional noise barriers meet the technical requirements for sound, they often give rise to conflicts with urban planning, landscape integration, and social demands. Massive structural designs impair visual connections, create barriers within urban spaces, and encounter public resistance, particularly in sensitive environments.The approach presented demonstrates that this conflict of objectives can be resolved through a new system architecture that combines transparency with highly absorbent and strongly reflection reducing acoustic properties. By employing a modular design and innovative technology whose resonance behavior can be specifically tuned to defined frequency ranges, acoustic performance can be adapted to different sound spectra. The solution fulfills the technical and regulatory requirements for both rail and road applications.This opens new design potential for noise reducing infrastructure that equally addresses functional, aesthetic, and societal requirements. Such systems contribute to reducing planning resistance, increasing public acceptance of large scale infrastructure projects, and enabling the socially compatible integration of noise protection measures into public space.