Environmental criteria for road traffic noise
The environmental criteria for road traffic noise aims to:
- institute a more comprehensive and effective approach to managing road traffic noise
- refocus the approach to mitigating road traffic noise from relatively late in the road development process to a much earlier stage
- encourage the range of strategies that should be applied to reducing traffic noise, and prevent over-reliance on engineering noise controls, such as noise barriers
- revise the noise level targets so that the methodology and levels provide criteria that can assess noise impacts and recognise the benefits of all noise mitigation measures.
Environmental criteria for road traffic noise (PDF format, 286kb)
Page last updated: 13 March 2008