Noise and nuisance - research reports
WG-AEN’s Good Practice Guide and the implications for acoustic accuracy
As part of its ongoing support to the EU Working Group on the Assessment of Environmental Noise (WG-AEN), Defra let a contract that investigated various issues that would affect the accuracy of noise maps. The executive summary of the study report is available below.
Defra is delighted with the outcome of this study and feels that it has greatly helped our understanding of these complex issues. It should be noted, however, that any views expressed in these reports are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of either Defra or the EU.
- Project overview (PDF 300 KB)
- Executive summary (PDF 300 KB)
- Data accuracy guidelines for CRTN (PDF 300 KB)
- Data accuracy guidelines for XPS 31-133 (PDF 800 KB)
- Sensitivity analysis for noise mapping (PDF 900 KB)
- Proposed new GPG toolkits (PDF 350 KB)
- Testing GPG toolkits 1 and 12 (PDF 450 KB)
- Quantified accuracy of GPG toolkits (PDF 400 KB)
- Error propagation testing of CRTN (PDF 13.5 MB - large file)
- Error propagation testing of XPS 31-133 (PDF 17.0 MB - large file)
For further enquiries, please contact:
Ian Sherlock
Project Manager (Research)
Local Environment Protection
Defra, Nobel House
3rd Floor, Zone 3B
17 Smith Square
London
SW1P 3JR
Page last modified: 3 July 2007
Page published: 26 January 2006