The Noise Network Plus Sustainability Working Group seeks to identify the current and future grand challenges for transport noise and collaboratively suggest innovative action plans for solutions that are sustainable.  We will use a mission-oriented research approach, bringing together a diverse community to co-design a set of “missions” to address the challenges identified.

We want to ensure that sound and noise are addressed from the beginning in design that is sustainable from start to end (or cradle to cradle).  Also recognising the state of the existing infrastructure and the need to retrofit. One of the key challenges will be to find and bring allies outside the acoustic community, e.g., other engineers, policy makers, social scientists, economists, and groups that may be excluded to work together towards the co-design of missions. 

We will work in two phases: 

1. Strategic orientation: Achieve consensus on the definition and selection of noise-related challenges and achieving sustainable solutions and translate the broad challenges into feasible objectives (i.e., missions). 
2. Development of roadmaps in collaboration with our external allies to translate the missions into action plans. 

We will work with the other working groups to share the focus and priorities in developing the missions for the explorative pilot projects funding calls.