Noise Reducing Devices (barriers, claddings, covers and added devices following EN14388) play an important role in noise reduction: optimizing their global performance is of major concern towards Sustainable Surface Transport. QUIESST will merge, for the very first time and within a true holistic approach, true intrinsic products characteristics, whatever their materials and shapes, together with their extrinsic ones, in order to assess their actual global capacities to reduce the amount of people exposed to noise (END target). It will address 5 main topics: NEAR / FAR FIELD RELATIONSHIP: linking the intrinsic characteristics to the corresponding extrinsic far field effect; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT METHODS: developing methods relevant of the actual intended use, allowing long term performances control; COMPARING NRD's PERFORMANCES with different test methods: building a database comparing both existing and new tests results and providing the relevant relationship; OPTIMIZING NRD's GLOBAL PERFORMANCE through a HOLISTIC APPROACH: considering acoustic, non acoustic and global impact optimization, multicriteria optimization strategies, and possible global performance indicators; SUSTAINABILITY: defining the relevant generic criteria and developing the first existing NRD's overall sustainability assessment method. The final verifiable result will be the ACTUAL USE of the Guidebook to NRD optimization as a reference tool for noise mitigation. QUIESST addresses the call as it concerns surface transport noise abatement (road AND rail), considers cost benefit analysis and addresses the END objectives, covers true holistic noise abatement solutions through wave propagation and systems for passive compensation. Its team, made of 14 partners from 9 countries integrates the relevant stakeholders: Infrastructures, Industry, Universities, Research Institutes and SME.
Coordinator
ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGIES SA (Belgium)
Other participants
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM – UNIVERSITA’ DI BOLOGNA
- Dip. di Ingegneria Energetica, Nucleare e del controllo ambientale- DIENCA
- Resp. Scientifico: Prof. Massimo Garai
ASSOCIAZIONE FRA I COSTRUTTORI DI ACCIAIO ITALIANI (Italy)
EUROPEAN UNION ROAD FEDERATION (EU)
CENTRE D'ETUDE TECHNIQUES DE L'EQUIPEMENT*CETE EST LRPC (France)
ÖSTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGS- UND PRÜFZENTRUM ARSENAL GES.M.B.H. (Austria)
RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN (Germany)
CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE DU BATIMENT (France)
FUNDACION CIDAUT (Spain)
NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK - TNO - (The Netherlands)
KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN (Belgium)
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD (UK)
BUNDESANSTALT FUER STRASSENWESEN (Germany)
Start date 01/11/2009
End date 31/10/2012
Duration 36 months
Project Reference 233730
Project cost 2.559.959 EURO
Project Funding 1.948.968 EURO
Area FP7-COOPERATION-SST-2008-RTD-1-TRANSPORT
Subprogramme Area Holistic noise and vibration abatement
Contract type Small or medium-scale focused research project