END Noise Mapping – The sustainable solution of the German Federal Railway Authority, review to an outstanding project

摘要

The Federal Railway Authority of Germany was tendering 2006 a sustainable noise mappingrnsystem to fulfil the needs of the END (European Noise Directive). The aim of the project was torndevelop a system which contains all required model data and results for the first level of the EUrnnoise mapping. In addition the system should be an integrated software solution to explore thernmodel data. It should give public access to the results, include a set of optimized tools torncontinue the work for the next level of detail and also be a data supplier for local authorities.rnThe major challenges of this project were: The integration and homogenization of thernfundamental data from each individual federal state and different other data suppliers to build anrnarea-wide data model that is consistent and sustainable. Merging the different software productsrnGIS software, database software and noise calculation software to get a completely homogenousrnsoftware application and transferring the know-how from the model data preparation into thisrnnew software application.rnThe goal was reached in 2008: The results are published via the internet. Local authoritiesrncan request base date from the system for their action plans.