Abstract
Since the European Directive 2002/49, large transportation infrastructure along with large urban areas should have completed strategic noise maps (SNM) and the relative noise action plans (NAP). The majority of European Member States (MS) has enforced this directive and completed fully or, in some cases, partially, with European smart cities to use and share the same criteria and methodologies and along with transport operators to communicate to the public the relevant results and respective action plans by ensuring the citizen's awareness about the environmental noise, the quality acoustic environment, and their effect to their professional and everyday lifestyle. Today, 18 years after its first edition, the European Directive 2002/49/EC is needed to be reformulated to take into account all defects that have been identified and to adapt as well as possible to contemporary constraints. New methodology tools have been developed especially regarding soundscaping and environmental acoustic rehabilitation of urban areas, and the respective chapter will describe the progress being made on these smart developments of cities and infrastructures. This chapter will also evoke criticisms of these smart tools and will present results from several--state of the art--case studies especially regarding the practical and theoretical limits they face.
Highlights
The European Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49 [1] implemented in all EU Member States, almost 18 years ago, provided several smart tools to access and manage environmental noise and enhance cities’ development
The analysis is based on a series of practical cases studies carried out in Greece and will show how these smart tools had to adapt to the twenty-firstcentury environmental issues
The tools presented in this chapter can be considered as quite intelligent because they can handle a large amount of data related to environmental noise and the urban soundscape
Summary
The European Environmental Noise Directive 2002/49 [1] implemented in all EU Member States, almost 18 years ago, provided several smart tools to access and manage environmental noise and enhance cities’ development. “it is part of community policy to achieve a high level of health and environmental protection, and one of the objectives to be pursued is protection against noise. This chapter offers, an analysis of the tools that have been created in the framework of this directive and aims to show how these specialized tools contribute to an intelligent development of European cities and wider urban territories. The analysis is based on a series of practical cases studies carried out in Greece (and in Europe) and will show how these smart tools had to adapt to the twenty-firstcentury environmental issues
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