The Noise Network Plus Transport Working Group seeks to identify the current and future grand challenges for transport noise, and collaboratively suggest innovative actions plans for their solution. We will use a mission0oriented research approach, bringing together a diverse community to co-design a set of “missions” to address the challenges identified. The chair is Prof. Antonio J Torija Martinez MIOA.
Transport is probably the source of noise leading to highest impact on people and wildlife. In England, road noise alone is estimated to cause £7-10bn of health costs with 130,000 healthy life years lost each year, and aircraft noise across Europe is estimated to disrupt the education of 12,500 children.
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, to work together towards the co-design of missions.
We will work in two phases:
- Strategic orientation: Achieve consensus on the definition and selection of transport noise-related challenges, and translate the broad challenges into feasible objectives (i.e., missions).
- Development of roadmaps in collaboration with our external allies to translate the missions into action plans.
As part of our work, we will also collaborate with the Noise Network Plus as a whole to share the focus and priorities for the explorative pilot projects funding calls.