Event gathering LIFE projects and other EU-funded projects and actors to showcase innovative solutions to obtain and apply noise-reducing pavements, and to discuss related technical challenges, their integration in action plans for noise reduction, and standardization challenges.
AGENDA
09.00 – 09.15 – Opening & introductions
Marco Paviotti, European Commission, DG Environment
Manuel Montero Ramírez, CINEA, LIFE Programme
09.15 – 11.15 – Solutions/success stories from EU-funded projects
- Overview of low-noise pavements legislation and standards: Fabienne Anfosso-Ledée (Senior Researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel)
- Lessons learned from low noise pavements in urban areas (NEMO project): Bert Peeters and Ronald van Loon (Senior consultants at M+P)
- Paris’ experience of 3 innovative asphalt formula (LIFE ASPHALT project): Giulia Custodi (Environmental policy – Paris municipality)
- Italian national roads adopt low noise road surfaces: Patrizia Bellucci (Head of the Traffic and Noise Section – ANAS SpA)
- Standardisation of acoustic assessment of low-noise pavements: Manfred Haider (Senior Researcher in Center for Transport Technologies, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH)
11.15 – 11.30 – Coffee break
11.30 – 12.30 – Panel 1 discussion: Technical challenges of low noise asphalt mixture production and use
Moderator: prof. Filippo Praticò (Director of Road Laboratory, Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria)
12.30 – 13:30 – Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 – Panel 2 discussion: Integrating new solutions in action plans for noise reduction
Moderator: prof. Gaetano Licitra (Head of Pisa Department at the Environmental Protection Agency of Tuscany Region and professor of acoustics at the University of Pisa, LIFE SILENT project)
14:30 – 15.15 – Panel 3 discussion: Standardization challenges
Moderator: Manfred Haider
15.15 – 15.30 – Conclusions and meeting closing
Marco Paviotti, European Commission, DG Environment
The presentations of the event can be found on https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/events/solutions-low-noise-road-surfaces-online-networking-and-awareness-meeting-2024-02-06_en
