New Solutions Mitigating Environmental Noise Pollution III

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing attention among the public following scientific results regarding the effects of noise pollution on health pushed the EU to issue the 49/2002/CE directive. Noise mapping in the EU found an enormous number of annoyed citizens; as a result, cities and infrastructure owners were asked to mitigate noise from transport and industrial sources, inside and outside of buildings. New solutions are now being studied and applied, and there is a great deal of interest in experimentation taking into account the green economy, recycling materials, new approaches to traffic management as low emission zones, new pavements, new vehicles and tires, and novel systems to reduce noise at sources for railways and airports.

Methods and procedures are set to establish the efficacy and efficiency of mitigation actions, while standards on barriers and pavements can help to qualify performances, and the prioritization of actions has become crucial in order to guarantee transparent principles to the public.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to determine the state of the art in noise mitigation at the source and also in propagation and at the receivers.

A variety of research topics are of interest, including but not limited to the following:

• Noise action plans;
• Transportation noise mitigation;
• Policies and good practices for traffic management, noise planning;
• Noise control;
• Industrial noise remediation;
• Methods for action prioritization;
• Evaluation of mitigation action performance;
• Models and algorithms for source characterization and outdoor sound propagation;
• Classification, evaluation, and protection of quiet areas;
• Noise mitigation in building acoustics;
• Wind turbine noise;
• Use of recycled and waste materials to reduce noise.

The publications in the first volume and second volume, which we believe may be of interest to you, can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/environments/special_issues/noise_pollut.

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/environments/special_issues/W4BDKQ3Q13

Prof. Dr. Gaetano Licitra
Dr. Luca Fredianelli
Guest Editors

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• noise action plan
• transportation noise mitigation
• noise planning
• traffic management
• noise control