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Report on 2nd Workshop with Stakeholders on "Road Transport Noise"
Brussels, April 29, 2003

1. Introduction and Objective of the Workshop

The aim of the CALM network is to establish the "Community Noise Research Strategy Plan". This plan shall identify strategies for future research that will be designed to promote EU wide reduction of environmental noise. Therefore, the network has to identify the strategic research needs in the fields of noise emission (with special focus on noise caused by road traffic, railway transport, aircraft and outdoor machinery), noise propagation, noise exposure and the adverse effects of noise, particularly in urban areas. The development of such an strategic research plan requires, of course, the close involvement of all stakeholders which is realised by special workshops within CALM.

The first workshop dealing with the four noise emission topics road, rail, aeronautics and outdoor machinery was held in Brussels on 18^th and 19^th March 2002 (see Detailled Report). This first workshop aimed at the definition of the basic research requirements in these fields and provided also essential inputs for the CALM Strategy Paper 2002 titled "Research for a Quieter Europe" (see Press Release).

The second workshop on "road transport noise" covered by this report, is a continuation of the first workshop and has the following objectives:

• Further detailing the current planning status of research needs including an updating of the results of the first workshop
• Establishing time scales for the research needs, i.e. for the availability and implementation of the related technologies
• Making the results coherent with the Working Group 8 (Road Transport Noise) and the stakeholders

2. Venue and Agenda

The one-day workshop on 29^th April 2003 was held in the

    Hotel Chambord
    Rue de Namur 82
    1000 Brussels

with the following agenda:

09:00 – 09:30		Registration
09:30	J. Affenzeller	Welcome, Goals of Workshop, Procedures
09:45	A. Rust	Introduction to CALM
10:05	J. Affenzeller	Status of ERTRAC (European Road Transport Research Advisory Council)
10:20	H. Steven	Status of Working Group 8 (Road Transport Noise)
10:30 – 11:00		Coffee Break
11:00	A. Rust	Status of CALM Research Planning
11:20	All	Detailing of Research Needs
13:00 – 14:00		Lunch Break
14:00	All	Time Scales for Research Needs
15:30	J. Affenzeller	Summary, Conclusions, Outlook
15:45		End of CALM Workshop, Final Coffee

3. Participants

Surname	First Name	Organisation / Company	E-Mail
Affenzeller	Josef	AVL	mail to
Bein	Thilo	Fraunhofer Inst. Darmstadt	mail to
Emborg	Urban	A2 Acoustics AB	mail to
Franco-Jorge	Maria	MIRA	mail to
Gijrath	Hans	TNO	mail to
Gjestland	Truls	SINTEF	mail to
Goeransson	Peter	KTH Stockholm	mail to
Hidalgo	Antonio	Cidaut	mail to
Hinton	John	Birmingham City Council	mail to
Hoadley	Suzanne	POLIS	mail to
Janosch	Jean-Jacques	Caterpillar Europe	mail to
Kortbeek	Boudewijn	Ministry VROM / NL	mail to
Lam	Yiu Wai	Univ. Salford	mail to
Mercier-Handisyde	Patrick	EC / DG RTD	mail to
Nielsen	Hugo Lyse	Acoustica - Carl Bro	mail to
Nykaenen	Hannu	VTT Industrial Systems	mail to
Phillips	Steve	FEHRL	mail to
Rust	Alfred	AVL	mail to
Saemann	Ernst Ulrich	Continental	mail to
Sandberg	Ulf	VTI	mail to
Schumacher	Thomas	IKA	mail to
Steven	Heinz	RW-TUEV Fahrzeug GmbH	mail to
Trassaert	Patrick	FAURECIA	mail to
van Blokland	Gijsjan	M+P Consulting Engineers	mail to
van der Auweraer	Hermann	LMS	mail to
Vecchio	Antonio	LMS	mail to
Wolff	Oliver	HEAD acoustics	mail to

4. Presentations

The following presentations were given:

• Introduction to CALM (by A. Rust) - see Attachment 1

• Status of ERTRAC / European Road Transport Research Advisory Council
  (by J. Affenzeller):

• Council is in final stage of preparation
• Council to be launched end of June 2003.

• Status of Noise Working Group 8 (by H. Steven)

• Established in 2000, up to now 5 meetings, new chairman is Mr. D. Meyer from German ministry of transport, construction and housing

• Outputs up to now:

• Draft position paper on the "noise emission of powered two wheelers"
• Study on the "integrated assessment of noise reduction measures in the road transport sector" (to be completed in autumn 2003)

• Status of CALM Research Planning (by A. Rust) - see Attachment 2

5. Results

Based on the results of the first workshop and on the brain storming and intensive discussions of this workshop, the future research requirements were further specified and assessed. The requirements can be clustered into 8 groups:

1. Tyres (including tyre-road interaction)
2. Infrastructure
3. Vehicle noise
4. Traffic flow and monitoring
5. Annoyance
6. Standards
7. Regulations
8. General

All these research needs are collected in Attachment 3. The collection includes - as far as possible - estimates of noise reduction potentials, priorities, estimations of time scales and other remarks.

These results will provide essential inputs for the further development of the noise technology road maps and the strategic research plan within the CALM network.