CNOSSOS-FR: Are current road traffic noise emission coefficients still representative of today's vehicle fleet and roads?

Abstract

CNOSSOS-EU is the common noise prediction method for producing strategic noise maps in Europe, according to Directive 2002/49/CE. Its road vehicle noise emission model involves a propulsion noise component and a rolling noise component, with coefficients specific to each vehicle category. As currently applied in France, it relies on the original EU coefficients published in the 2015 CNOSSOS-EU version and the rolling noise contribution is detailed in road surface classes in agreement with the national NMPB2008 method. As provided in the European method, corrective coefficients in frequency bands were determined per road surface class. The objective was to minimise the overall difference between NMPB2008 and CNOSSOS-FR emission predictions under similar conditions, the former method being previously used for periodic mapping. Now considering the later release of new EU reference coefficients and the difficulty of making the two methods involving different expressions and assumptions coincide, as well as questioning the need to update emission values resulting from measurements of the vehicle fleet taken 20-25 years ago, the study MINOOS is being carried out to assess the noise emission of the current vehicle fleet and reconsider French prediction coefficients accordingly. The paper describes the procedure and presents the first results.