Abstract
Road traffic is the most used kind of transportation which has a lot of benefits. Except of these benefits, the road traffic causes a lot of negative impacts like a congestions, air pollution and noise. The proposal of European Parliament is reduction of these impacts by their inclusion to the road charges. In the annex of amending directive 1999/62ES are stated prices for congestion and external costs. If the member state wants higher amount like are stated, they have to be calculated. One element of external costs is noise costs. Noise from road transport causes health problems and has annoying effect to people. In this article, it was processed proposal of noise charges quantification, which consist of a few steps. This process was applied for quantifying noise charges with real values for Slovakia and Slovenia.
Highlights
Using of road infrastructure brings to society considerable costs
The road traffic causes a lot of negative impacts like a congestions, air pollution and noise
In case, when the stated prices in annex IIIb are not adequate, it is necessary quantify noise charges according equation stated in annex IIIa
Summary
Using of road infrastructure brings to society considerable costs. They are caused mainly by congestions, noise and air pollution. The proposal of European Parliament is inclusion these external costs to charging roads as a tool for their reduction. In annex of amending directive gives the references amount of fee for congestion, noise and air pollution. The proposal of the directive is to charge roads where are the noise levels too high and have negative impact on people. This noise charging should be a tool for noise reduction from road traffic on specified roads sections.
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