Cholava R., Dvorakova P., Smekal P.

The development of transport brings together with positive effects also the amount of negative impacts, including the excessive noise burden in the vicinity of roads. To ensure the effective system of the assessment and management of environmental noise, the Directive 2002/49/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council was adopted. The paper presents partial results from the ongoing project, which deals with the action planning in accordance with the mentioned directive and is being worked out by the team from Transport Research Centre (CDV) in the Czech Republic. The objective of the project is to create methodology for elaborating action plans that will manage the annoying and harmful noise effects in the specified areas and will determine procedures for noise reduction. The solution starts from strategic noise maps for major roads, major railways and major airports and will include the design of measures for noise reduction in places, where limit values of noise indicators will be exceeded, in the frame of the feasibility study in a selected region. The findings from other projects of CDV, aimed at both the verification of the official Czech method for calculation of road traffic noise for traffic on multi-lane highways and the method for determination of the number of people exposed to excessive road traffic noise, will be applied.