Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Parson's Building, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
J Environ Manage. 2011 Mar;92(3):756-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.10.034. Epub 2010 Nov 16.
The first phase of noise mapping and action planning in Ireland, in accordance with EU Directive 2002/49/EC, is now complete. In total this included one agglomeration, one airport and approximately 600 km of major roads outside the agglomeration. These noise maps describe the level of noise exposure of approximately 1.25 million people. The first phase of noise mapping was dealt with by five noise mapping bodies while 26 action planning authorities were involved in the development of the associated action plans. The second phase of noise mapping, due to be completed in 2012, sees a reduction in the defined thresholds describing the required agglomerations, roads and railways that have to be mapped. This will have a significant impact on the extent of mapping required. In Ireland this will result in an increased number of local authorities being required to develop strategic noise maps for their area along with the further development of associated action plans. It is appropriate at this point to review the work process and results from the first phase of noise mapping in Ireland in order to establish areas that could be improved, throughout the noise mapping project. In this paper a review of the implementation procedures focussing on (dominant) road traffic noise is presented. It is identified that more standardisation is needed and this could be achieved by the establishment of a national expert steering group.
爱尔兰已按照欧盟指令 2002/49/EC 完成了噪声地图绘制和行动计划编制的第一阶段工作。这包括一个城市群、一个机场和大约 600 公里的城市群外主要道路。这些噪声地图描述了大约 125 万人的噪声暴露水平。第一阶段的噪声地图绘制工作由五个噪声地图编制机构完成，而 26 个行动计划编制当局则参与了相关行动计划的制定。应在 2012 年完成的第二阶段噪声地图绘制工作，降低了描述需要绘制的城市群、道路和铁路的规定阈值。这将对所需的绘图范围产生重大影响。在爱尔兰，这将导致需要更多的地方当局为其地区制定战略噪声地图，并进一步制定相关行动计划。此时，为了在整个噪声测绘项目中确定可以改进的领域，有必要审查爱尔兰噪声测绘第一阶段的工作流程和结果。本文重点回顾了（主要）道路交通噪声的实施程序。确定需要更多的标准化，这可以通过建立一个国家专家指导小组来实现。
