Abstract

In the world of growing economy and population, the need of transportation is rapidly increasing also raising problems of noise pollution. Environmental noise levels are increasing in parallel with increasing traffic flows resulting negative effects for society, wildlife and economy. The article gives an overview about the main transport noise source tyre/road noise, its generation mechanisms and influencing factors. One of the most effective and promising tyre/road noise solutions is low noise pavements, which has different noise reduction approaches. Low noise asphalt pavements and theoretical noise reduction principles are analysed in the paper as well as the development experience of particular low noise asphalt pavements for Lithuanian conditions.

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