Objective
The objective of QCITY is to propose a range of measures and solutions that can realistically be integrated both from an eomic as well as from a practical point of view in the action plans that the cities (municipalities) will have to produce as a sequence of the EC Noise Directive 2002/49/EC. QCITY starts from the identification of hot spots on existing noise maps from a large number of cities, using the Stockholm score model. Some noise spots are then researched in detail with specific software in order to find the root causes of the problem. Various solutions will be studied for each of the selected hot spots and their effects determined, also by looking at the number of people impacted and the degree of the impact. The entire range of rail transport vehicles, trams, metro, suburban rail and freight, and their associated infrastructure are an integral part of this project, and are treated on the same level as road vehicles (cars, busses, trucks, motorbikes) and their infrastructure. Besides addressing the transport noise problems (at source, propagation and receiver) with ventional technical solutions, QCITY incorporates issues such as traffic trol, town planning, architectural features, noise perception issues, intermodal transport, change between transport modes, traffic restrictions, enforcement measures, eomic incentive measures, introduction of hybrid vehicles and of new guided public transport vehicles. In a first phase, emphasis will be on noise mapping and on the ceptual design of the sidered solution and their potential impact. In the sed phase, the most promising solutions will be designed in detail for a specific hot-spot problem selected in each participating city. The solutions will be implemented in situ and validated.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringvehicle engineering
- social sciencessocial geographytransportpublic transport
You need to log in or register to use this function
We are sorry... an unexpected error occurred during execution.
You need to be authenticated. Your session might have expired.
Thank you for your feedback. You will soon receive an email to confirm the submission. If you have selected to be notified about the reporting status, you will also be contacted when the reporting status will change.
Call for proposal
FP6-2003-TRANSPORT-3
See other projects for this call
Funding Scheme
IP - Integrated ProjectCoordinator
TÄBY
Sweden
See on map
Participants (26)
GREIFENBERG
See on map
LEUVEN
See on map
LEUVEN
See on map
BORLÄNGE
See on map
OVERIJSE
See on map
OOSTENDE
See on map
BOOM
See on map
COLMAR-BERG
See on map
HERZOGENRATH-KOHLSCHEID
See on map
SCHELLE
See on map
STOCKHOLM
See on map
MECHELEN
See on map
BRESCIA
See on map
SOLNA
See on map
Box 38024 STOCKHOLM
See on map
BRUSSELS
See on map
6060 DELFT
See on map
Box 2003 GÖTEBORG
See on map
ELLINIKO - ATHENS
See on map
CHOLARGOS - ATHENS
See on map
CAMBRIDGE
See on map
VOLOS
See on map
LEOBEN
See on map
FÄRJESTADEN
See on map
BRUSSELS
See on map
CERGY-PONTOISE
See on map