Dissemination

29.06. – 04.07.2008

Acoustics ´08 - Paris/ France

At Acoustics '08 many of the partners of Qcity will be present. There will be also a structured secession (NS21): “Action planning and global solutions for urban noise”.
Description: New development and best practice related to human perception.
Here you can find the draft list of speakers regarding action planning:

  1. Paul de Vos, DHV:
    “Strategies for noise action plans”
  2. Marilo Jiménez, Road Directorate of the Spanish Ministry of Public Works:
    “Strategic Noise Maps: starting point for Action Plans”
  3. Dick Botteldooren, Gant University:
    “How to consider quality of life and health in the Action Planning process”
  4. Henk Miedema, TNO (Qcity):
    “System for Rating Environmental Noise for Action Planning in the framework of the END”
  5. Fanny Mietlick, Bruitparif (SILENCE):
    "Action Plan in the Ile-de-France region : a complex process"
  6. Jeroen Borst, TNO (Qcity):
    “Decision support system for Action Planning in the framework of the END”
  7. Alexander Ossipov, Goodyear (Qcity)
  8. Geert Desanghere, Akron (Qcity):
    “Modelling of Urban Rail Noise Mitigations in EU Noise Maps”
  9. Sandro Guidati, HEAD acoustics (Qcity):
    “Auralisation of traffic noise scenarios”
  10. Markus Petz, ACCON (Qcity):
    “Action planning procedures and realized action plans of municipalities and cities – results from the implementation of END“

For more information about Acoustics '08 please visit: http://www.acoustics08-paris.org/

14.03.2008

Noise in the City 2008 - Amsterdam/ Netherlands

"How the Qcity program can help cities to fight against noise, in particular by helping to detect hotspots, the use of hybrid cars, utilization of anti-noise barriers and how to do good urban development" will be presented by Mr.Nils-Åke Nilsson, Acoustic Control.
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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, ACCON
”Qcity - Noise reduction potentials of local truck routing concepts” presented by Markus Petz, ACCON GmbH
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30.11.2007

Qcity Noise congress 2007 Stockholm - Stockholm/ Sweden

Analogously to the Noise Congress 2007 in Stuttgart/ Germany also the Swedish communities and engineering offices were informed about action planning and the implementation of the Directive 2002/49/EG the 30 November 2007 in Stockholm/ Sweden. Over 80 attendees received interesting information about the Qcity project with attention on action planning. The congress was organized by Acoustic Control.
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01.-02.11.2007

CALM Conference - Brussels/ Belgium

”Qcity -The Noise Environment Rating System (NERS) as an aid for preparing Noise Action Plans” presented by Nils-Ake Nilsson, Acoustic Control
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15.10.2007

Qcity Noise congress 2007 Stuttgart - Stuttgart/ Germany

As a follow-up after the successfully noise congress 2006 there was a congress held 15 October 2007 in Stuttgart/ Germany with a goal to inform communities, engineering offices, politicians about action planning and the implementation of the Directive 2002/49/EG. Over 230 attendees were interested in catching up on new realizations and results achieved by the Qcity project with attention on action planning. Please find here some photos, the presentations, and press releases.
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02.-07.09.2007

ICA 19 - Madrid/ Spain

At the 19th International Congress on Acoustics in Madrid Wolfgang Probst, ACCON GmbH presented: “Qcity – A Concept for Noise Mapping, Ranking, Hot Spot Detection and Action Planning” and Klaus Genuit, Sandro Guidati and Sebastian Rossberg presented “Psychoacoustical Evaluation of Traffic Noise”
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28.-31.08.2007

Inter-Noise 2007 - Istanbul/ Turkey

New developed scoring techniques were demonstrated within the Qcity project by Wolfgang Probst, ACCON GmbH: “Noise Mapping, Hot Spot Detection and Action Planning – an Approach Developed in the Frame of the EC-Project Quiet City”. Nils-Åke Nilsson and Åsa Stenman, Acoustic Control presented “Creating Quiet City Zones by noise charges and quiet vehicles. Part two: Noise reduction effects” and Åsa Stenman+Peter Malm presented “On the Creation of Noise Action Plans for Urban Areas by the Use of Large Noise Maps and Hot-Spot Analysis”
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09.-12.07.2007

ICSV 14 - Cairns/ Australia

At Fourteenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV14) held in Cairns/Australia the Qcityproject was presented with a paper titled “Quiet City – A European Project to Support Cities in Noise Mitigation”
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April 2007

Press Article

“Exact data: Measures for noise reduction will be investigated within the project „Quiet City Transport“ published in in the German journal “Der Gemeinderat” written by Markus Petz, ACCON GmbH
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19.03. – 22.03.2007

DAGA 2007 - Stuttgart/ Germany

Presentation of the Qcityproject by Wolfgang Probst, ACCON GmbH for German audiences: “Das EU-Projekt Qcity – Quiet City Transport”
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11.01.2007

Transportforum 2007 - Linköping/ Sweden

”Analysing Traffic Noise Measures using Traffic Models” presented by Pia Sundbergh, KTH
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03.-06.12.2006

Inter-Noise 2006 - Honolulu/ Hawaii

The aim of the project “Qcity was presented by Wolfgang Probst, ACCON GmbH “Noise mapping and action planning – the European approach to reduce environmental noise” at The 35th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering
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28.-29.08.2006

Trafikdage på Aalborg Universtitet 2006 - Aalborg/ Denmark

The presentation “Using Traffic Models as a Tool When Creating Noise Maps - Methods used in the EU-project Qcity” was held by Pia Sundbergh, KTH
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22.08.2006

Noise Mapping Workshop - Warszawa/ Poland

was held by Wolfgang Probst, ACCON GmbH for communities about EU Strategic noise mapping. Basic goals and scope of the Directive 2002/49/EG, procedures and methods, general principles of modeling and calculation (developed within the Qcity project)

12.-13.07.2006

Noise congress 2006 - Baden-Württemberg/ Germany

The main focus of the two-day congress (held 12-13 July 2006 in Leinfelden-Echterdingen/near Stuttgart) was the implementation of the Directive 2002/49/EG. The audience covered 190 attendees of communities, engineering offices, politicians. The congress was organized by ACCON GmbH, please find here some photos, the presentations, and press releases in German language.
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02.-06.07.2006

ICSV 13 - Vienna/ Austria

At Thirteenth International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV13) which was to be held from 2 to 6 July 2006 in Vienna, Austria the attendees had a possibility to join the presentation from Wolfgang Probst, ACCON GmbH about ”Noise Perception and Scoring of Noise Exposure” and the presentation from Constantinos Vogiatzis, TT&E “Prototype barriers for trams and trains in urban environment: measurement campaign at Athens tram network”
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30.05.-01.06.2006

Euronoise 2006 - Tampere/ Finland

“Noise Calculation Strategies“ presented by Wolfgang Probst, ACCON GmbH
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20.-23.03.2006

DAGA 2006 - Braunschweig/ Germany

“Wirkungsbezogene Bewertung von Lärm – Konsequenzen von Einzahlbewertungen“ („Ranking of Noise Exposures – Consequences of single number Noise Sources“) presented by Wolfgang Probst, ACCON GmbH
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18.10.2005

CALM Workshop - Brussels/ Belgium

”Noise Mapping as a Tool for Creating Efficient Action Plans” presented by Wolfgang Probst, ACCON GmbH
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16.06.2005

CALM Workshop - Brussels/ Belgium

”Quiet City Transport – Project Presentation” presented by Geert Desanghere, Akron on behalf of Nils-Ake Nilsson, Acoustic Control
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