The Belgrade Secretariat for Environmental Protection has announced a tender for the selection of a company that will produce state noise maps in the capital. The estimated value of the public procurement is 157 million dinars (about 1,3 million euros) without VAT, writes the New Economy.
A strategic noise map is a map that presents data on noise levels in a certain area.
Based on these maps, the Action Plan for noise protection is being developed, which should identify all zones that are threatened by noise and determine the degree of danger.
The action plan then defines measures to reduce the negative impact of noise for areas with exceedances, but also measures to preserve the existing situation in areas where there are no exceedances.
The process includes the creation of a 3D digital model of the terrain and models of construction facilities, locating noise sources of road, rail and air traffic, industrial plants and ports. The data should then be collected, processed and adjusted for calculation purposes.
After the calculations, the results should be analyzed and presented in accordance with the requirements of the legislation of Serbia and the EU. The deadline for submitting bids for the production of noise maps is November 28, 2023, and the deadline for their production is two years from the date of conclusion of the contract.
Since many types of pollution. Some, like dirty air, are widely known and reported on daily. On the other hand, there are those like noise, "quiet" in the media and the public, but omnipresent in the lives of citizens. Noise never sleeps, on the contrary, it daily damages the health of those who have nowhere to escape from it
The biggest daily source of noise is certainly traffic - primarily due to the large flow of cars, but also the use of old city transport vehicles. Although newer buses, trams and trolleybuses have recently been purchased, most of them already have many years of service, which certainly affects the level of noise they produce.
MJ/New economy
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