News & Highlights
29.06. – 04.07.2008
Acoustics ´08 - Paris/ France
At Acoustics '08 many of the partners of Qcity will be present…
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14.03.2008
Noise in the City 2008 - Amsterdam/ Netherlands
"How the Qcity program can help cities to fight against noise, in particular…
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19.-20.02.2008
Conference Czech Noise Mapping 2008 - Lázně Poděbrady/ Czech Republic
”Presentation of the Qcity project - An Overview” presented by Markus Petz…
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Issue 1-2007
1st Newsletter Qcity
Community noise is one of today´s most severe environmental pollutants, which makes noise induced annoyance an essential problem…
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2nd Newsletter Qcity
will be available in June 2008
Newsletter Qcity/Silence
The world of today is facing a number of changes, particularly with respect to environmental issues. The population in large European Cities…
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Leaflet Qcity
What is Qcity?
Qcity is an integrated research project partly funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme. This four year research project which started in February 2005 has a budget of about 13.5 million Euros.
The aim is to develop an integrated technology infrastructure for the efficient control of road and rail ambient noise by considering the attenuation of noise generation at source at both vehicle/infrastructure levels.
The activity will support European noise policy to eliminate harmful effects of noise exposure and decrease levels of transport noise creation, especially in urban areas, deriving solutions that will ensure compliance with the constraints of legislative limits.
A major objective is to provide municipalities with tools to establish noise maps and action plans (Directive 2002/49/EC) and to provide them with a broad range of validated technical solutions for the specific hot-spot problems they encounter in their specific city.