Descripción del proyecto
Desviación del ruido del tráfico para proteger nuestra audición
El tráfico de carretera es la fuente más generalizada de ruido ambiental y hay más de cien millones de personas afectadas por unos niveles perjudiciales en la Unión Europea. Se sabe que una exposición prolongada incrementa el estrés y altera el sueño. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos WHISSPER promoverá una nueva tecnología desarrollada por 4Silence, empresa con sede en los Países Bajos. Su tecnología revolucionaria, pero sencilla y sostenible, se basa en el principio de la difracción: desviación del ruido del tráfico en dirección ascendente con el fin de reducir el ruido horizontal. Los prototipos probados en los Países Bajos han resultado ser muy eficaces y fáciles de aplicar y mantener. El proyecto WHISSPER se centrará en optimizar la solución 4Silence y probarla en distintos entornos operativos.
Objetivo
The European expenditure on road and railway amounts ~€ 90 billion per year. Around 6% of the expenditure accounts for noise reduction measures, which equals to €5,43 billion. Despite spending these vast amounts of money, the overall exposure to traffic noise is escalating. Today, more than 1 in 4 Europeans is exposed to traffic noise levels dangerous to their health in their homes, schools and workplaces. The World Health Organization has classified traffic noise as the second worst environmental stressor affecting human health in Europe and the only one that is still growing.
Road and railway authorities recognize the problem, but budgets are limited, and currently available measures are based upon high cost solutions and have issues with life-time, noise reduction levels, and applicability. 4Silence helps to solve the problem. The technology company has invented a highly innovative, but also simple and sustainable solution based on the principle of diffraction, i.e. bending traffic noise in an upward direction in order to obtain horizontal noise reduction. It constitutes a revolutionary approach in the world of noise reduction, which traditionally focuses at noise absorption or blocking noise.
The prototypes are complete and qualified and have been tested in real world settings in the Netherlands. Demonstrations have provided evidence that the solution is highly effective in reducing noise exposure while having far lower cost (~50% cost reduction) and easier implementation and maintenance. This coincides with the increasing need of authorities for more cost-effective noise reduction measures. To ensure complete commercial scalability and enable international acceptance by road and railway authorities across Europe, the 4Silence solution requires optimization and scale up testing in different operational environments. With the support of several leading road and railway authorities, 4Silence aims to use the project set a new standard for traffic noise abatement.
Ámbito científico
Palabras clave
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-2
Régimen de financiación
SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinador
7524 PK Enschede
Países Bajos
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.