Development of noise maps and action plans in catalonia - Eduard Puig

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Eduard Puig Solé, [email protected]

Service for the Prevention of Pollution Acoustics and Light

Directorate General of Environmental Quality

DEVELOPMENT OF NOISE MAPS AND ACTION PLANS IN CATALONIA

26 of September of 2013 - Barcelona

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AGGLOMERATIONS in Catalonia

� Supra agglomerations:

1. Barcelonès I (> 250 000 c)

2. Barcelonès II (> 250 000 c)

3. Baix Llobregat I (> 250,000 c)

4. Baix Llobregat II (> 100,000 c)

5. Gironès (> 100,000 c)

6. Vallès Occidental I (> 100,000 c)

7. Vallès Occidental II (> 100,000 c)

� Local authorities agglomerations:

8. Lleida (> 100,000 c)

9. Reus (> 100,000 c)

10. Mataró (> 100,000 c)

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AGGLOMERATIONS (more than 250.000 c)

Barcelonès I

Barcelona and Sant Adrià de Besòs

Size: 104,3 Km 2

Population: 1.649.131 c

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Barcelonès II

Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramenet

Size: 28,8 Km 2

Population: 332.665 c

Baix Llobregat I

Hospitalet de Llobregat, Cornellà de Llobregat, Sant Feliu de Llobregat, Esplugues de Llobregat, Sant Joan Despíand Sant Just Desvern

Size: 49,9 Km 2

Population: 475.188 c

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Majors ROADS / RAILWAYS in Catalonia

1.841 Km of roads - DTES

370 m of superficial underground - TMB

71 Km of railway - FGC

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1. Controlling noise pollution from transport infrastructure.2. The temporary suspension of the objectives of sound quality in

case of public works infrastructure owned by the Government of Catalonia.

3. Declaring supra-municipal areas (more than one cities).4. Provide technical support, administrative law and necessary for

the preparation of strategic noise maps for local governments and infrastructure owners.

5. Coordinate and approve the strategic noise maps of a metropolitan-wide supra.

6. Gather the strategic noise maps and to comply with the reportingrequirements of Directive 2002/49/EC of 25 June.

Competences of the Department of Planning and Sustainability

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7. Declaring an area of special protection for sound (ZEPQA) in areas not included in land development.

8. Coordinate and approve action plans regarding noise from the crowded field of supramuncipal agglomerations.

9. Report of the action plans relating to noise pollution of the big roads, railways, major airports and ports.

10. To support the work of inspection and control of noise pollution, when requested local authorities.

11. Managing the system of accreditation and monitoring bodies for the prevention of noise pollution.

Competences of the Department of Planning and Sustainability

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Viewer with information of strategic noise maps

http://sima.gencat.cat/Visors/Soroll/Inici.html

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Objective: To obtain data on the population exposed to different noise levels, using GIS tools, across the population data with maps ofexisting noise situation.

The strategic noise maps in Catalonia

Benefit: strategic noise maps with minimal cost. A good compromise between cost and precision of the results.

Philosophy: the money must be spent on making plans and not on the maps.

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All maps (>100.000) already carried out in the first phase (Law 16/2002 of Catalonia)

The strategic noise maps in Catalonia – the methodology for the second round

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Tasks of update of cartography and of data, through selective measurements (short periods & 24 hours).

New calculations of exposed population with data updated in an environment GIS

Improvements: Obtaining of data depending on the typology of source.

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Our responsible for drawing up strategic noise maps

1. Infrastructure: Holders of the infrastructure, d evelop and approve.2. Agglomerations:

� Local authorities. The council develops and approves.

� Supra Scope: The municipality prepares and the Department of

Planning and Sustainability (DTES) coordinates and approves.

Town 1

Town 2

� Establish performance

criteria and presentation of

results.� Coordination between

municipalities.

� Quality control.� Technical advice.

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The action plans in Catalonia

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Action plans 1º phase, done. Our responsible:

� Establish criteria and methodology of format and

structure of the shares (Action

Plan document).� Coordination between

municipalities.

� Technical advice.

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Structure of the Action Plan document

In each action is performed, a summary table with the following format:

[1] Type of action: There are 5 types of actions as : regulation and compliance, incentives, investmen ts, strategic actions, awareness and consciousness.

[2] Priority: High, medium or low

[3] Agent that promotes action: Who supports this a ction, for example the technical services of the co uncil.

[4] Agent who directed the action: For whom or who benefits from this action, for example the group of carriers

[5] Description / purpose: A brief description of t he action.

[6] Monitoring: If any monitoring has been done and what, for example, periodic measurements of noise levels

[7] Field of activity: outreach in the town: local or global

[8] Resources: economic expenditure if quantifiable

[9] Benefit: If the expected benefit can be obtaine d, with decreased levels, affected population, ...

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Conclusions and future trends – noise maps

STRATEGIC NOISE MAPS:

1. Finding the commitment between accuracy and reasonable cost to make the maps. Better to reserve the costs for the corrective measures.

2. The maps have been based with acoustic measurements. In the next years, it will be necessary to incorporate the calculation/predictive methods into the

methodologies (CNOSSOS-EU)

3. And maybe in the future revision of the directive, will be interesting to

establish certain targets to reach, not only schelude as now , w ill be a good

pressure measure for all.

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Conclusions and future trends – action plans

ACTION PLANS:

1. The first phase of the action plans they have been focused on in the

improvement of the most exposed points. It will be necessary to take the

calm zones into account in the following phases.

2. Educating in the need to manage in the long term, between the

road/railway/airports holders and also the towns (politicians and technicians)

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Thank you for your attention

Eduard Puig Solé, [email protected]

Service for the Prevention of Pollution Acoustics and Light

Directorate General of Environmental Quality