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Transposition of the END in Croatia: Traffic noise map of the City of Varaždin

In the Republic of Croatia, the transposition of the Environmental Noise Diredtive 2002/49/EC (END) is based mainly through the Noise abatement Act (Official Gazette 20/03) and the associated bylaws. Simultanouesly with the building of the legal system in that area, certain cities and counties strive to apply best practice in the field of the environment protection by applying most recent European directives and reccomondations. During 2004, City of Varaždin, as the first city in the Republic of Croatia, begins with the preparation and later development of the traffic noise map aligned with the requirements of the END. This article presents main project aims and achievements and as well learned lessons with the respect to the applicability of the EU recommendations for the Croatian noise map projects, incuding the overview of the data mining process for the necessary data inputs required for the calculation of the noise maps. Special attention has been paid to the reliability and accuracy of produced map constructed on the basis of computational methods. This task was performed by the short-term validation of the road traffic noise map performed by the measurement of the road traffic noise according to the HRN DIN 45642.

Noise map; traffic noise; accuracy; validation

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