Conveners
A05.03 Urban sound planning / The quiet city for life quality: S032
- Laura Estévez-Mauriz (Universidad de León)
- Elias Zea (Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Robert Arcos (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
- Trond Maag
A05.03 Urban sound planning / The quiet city for life quality: S368
- Trond Maag
- Robert Arcos (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
- Elias Zea (Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
- Laura Estévez-Mauriz (Universidad de León)
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Dorien Lolkema (RIVM)10/09/2026, 09:00A05 Environmental Acoustics
All environmental acoustic data relevant for planning, monitoring, and policy publicly available via a central digital platform: that is what we built in the Netherlands. It is important that planners, acoustic experts and policy makers work with the same environmental acoustic data. Therefore, this data has been made FAIR. The central digital platform makes the data Findable and Accessible;...
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Angelos Tsaligopoulos (University of Trento, Dept. of Civil, Env., Mech. Eng.)10/09/2026, 09:20A05 Environmental Acoustics
Noise pollution is a critical yet historically underrepresented environmental pressure in global sustainability assessments. To address this gap, this research introduces the concept of the Product Noise Footprint (PNF) and establishes its foundational calculation methods. The PNF is designed to capture complex source–receiver dynamics across entire product supply chains through a structured...
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Guillermo Rey-Gozalo (Universidad de Extremadura)10/09/2026, 09:40A05 Environmental Acoustics
Urban planning is a key tool for improving the quality of acoustic environments. The characteristics of urban roads, the elements they contain, and the services located along them directly influence their patterns of use and, consequently, the resulting noise levels. Most studies analyzing the relationship between urban variables and sound levels rely on energy-based average indicators, as...
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Gustaf Wuite (TU Delft)10/09/2026, 10:20A05 Environmental Acoustics
Traffic noise annoyance is influenced not only by sound exposure levels but also by the spatial characteristics of the urban environment. In urban planning and design, morphological and greenery parameters are commonly reduced to their sound propagation effects, thereby omitting their non-acoustic role in noise annoyance. While numerous studies report effects of the built environment and urban...
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Klara Kranjčec (Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb)10/09/2026, 10:40A05 Environmental Acoustics
Existing EU approaches for quiet area identification often rely on noise level assessment, giving less weight to in situ measurements and subjective data. Recent research, alongside EEA and ETC/ATNI reports, recognises quiet areas through acoustic conditions, spatial qualities, visual attributes and cultural context. While emerging studies acknowledge quiet areas as multidimensional...
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Timo Haselhoff (Insitute for Urban Public Health)10/09/2026, 11:00A05 Environmental Acoustics
Strategic noise maps (SNMs) represent one of the few available data sources on acoustical information at high-spatial resolution. However, SNMs provide traffic noise predictions, not accounting for other acoustic properties. Recently, studies demonstrated promising results in modelling additional acoustic properties based on land-use (LU) data.Here, we assess the predictive performance of a...
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Moritz Lippold (RWTH Aachen University Chair of Urban Design)10/09/2026, 11:20A05 Environmental Acoustics
Traffic noise is a major environmental health burden in European cities, yet it is often addressed at a late stage in urban planning processes, mainly through legally required assessments that rely on technical indicators and do not directly incorporate human perception. The BaLSaM project developed and tested an audio visual simulation that links traffic data, auralization and urban design to...
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Priscila Wunderlich Villar (The Galway Sound Lab, School of Engineering,University of Galway)10/09/2026, 11:40A05 Environmental Acoustics
Technological advancements are reshaping environmental noise environments, with emerging sources such as electric vehicles and drones increasingly present in urban areas. In this context, the EPA-funded Noise 2050 project in Ireland explores future noise environments towards 2050 and how to prepare for emerging challenges. To support this objective, Ireland’s first National Noise Summit was...
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