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What is the general situation with the
ISSUE
Excessive noisiness belongs
among the negative impacts of traffic
in Košice upon the environment. Its intensity
varies in time, but there is an obvious tendency of the permanent
increase in the number of various types of transportation means, and
the adverse effect of noisiness upon the environs of transportation
routes is permanently increased. On the other hand it should be
stated that current cars are less noisy, and the wagon fleet of the
Transportation Enterprise of the Košice Municipality is being
gradually renewed, where the new means of transportation have much
quieter operation.
What is causing the problems
The current intensity of traffic on roads in the
city causes that the roads are excessively loaded, mainly in peak
hours between 8 and 9 o'clock a.m. and 1 and 4 o'clock p.m. during
drives from residential districts to the city centre, when
capacities of roads are fully exploited, and the crossroads are
overloaded with vehicles.
What are the
impacts of this ISSUE
The measurements of noisiness were carried out in
some sections of roads with excessive noise and their effect upon
the block of flats located in the close vicinity of these roads were
evaluated within the study programme and teaching at the Faculty of
Civil Engineering of the Technical University Košice. On the basis
of these measurements, parameters of noise barrier, whose effects
will be evaluated after carrying out repeated measurements.
What is being
done to fix the problems
It is necessary to remove by successive steps the
following problems, which causes excessive noisiness:
to build up the system of
bypass roads (see graphical annex) out of the residential areas,
and to reroute all transit freight and passenger transport (which
only passes through the city), as well as all possible city mass
transportation to these bypass roads,
to prefer municipal mass transportation –
trolley-bus, tram and bus over automobile transport,
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