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INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Noise contour map for roads noise in agglomerations – Lnight
This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of roads, which were identified as those roads exceeding the flow threshold of 3 million passages per year, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight (night) period for Dublin and Cork agglomerations and the major roads outside of the agglomerations. The dB value represents the average decibel value during the Lnight time.
Any direct comparison of the Round 3 versus Round 2 results should be carefully considered, as changes to the model input datasets used between these rounds may be significant. This may especially apply to the terrain model used, while there may be improved building height data, & improved traffic flow data with fewer assumed flows. There may also be some revisions to the actual road network modelled in Round 3.
The noise maps are the product of assimilating a collection of digital datasets, and over the last 10 years there has been significant improvements to the quality of the digital datasets describing the natural and built environment in Ireland. This has led to the strategic noise models giving much more reliable noise results with much less tendency to over predict the impact.
UPDATE (February 2019): The Regional roads in 26 Local Authorities (LAs) outside of Dublin, and Cork have now been amended by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII). The original road maps had included some significant stretches of roads (~20%) that were below the 3 million vehicles movements/annum reporting threshold. These road sections have now been removed and revised Regional road maps have been released by TII.
This TII review process has resulted in an update of the National road map that is reported to the EEA. The EPA has also updated our website to reflect these changes, and we will also look to provide relevant links to the Final LA Noise Action Plans (when completed): http://www.epa.ie/monitoringassessment/noisemapping/
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INSPIRE Strategic Noise Mapping of Roads Noise in Agglomerations 2017 Lnight
- Date (Creation)
- 2018-10-08
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-05-27
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-10-08
- Citation identifier
- EPA / HH.IE.EPA.NOISE_Road_Agglomeration_Lnight
- Citation identifier
- EPA / HH.HealthDeterminantMeasure
- Purpose
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The strategic noise mapping of the major roads across Ireland was undertaken by the National Roads Authority with the support of the local authorities within whose functional areas the major roads were located. They provide supplementary information relating to the Noise Action Plans developed in 2013 for the major roads in Ireland as part of the second round of the implementation of the EC Directive 2002/49/EC. The Directive was transposed in Ireland as Statutory Instrument, S.I. 140 of 2006, Environmental Noise Regulation 2006.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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noise measurement
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noise exposure plan
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noise type
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noise legislation
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noise level
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noise monitoring
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Environmental Protection Agency
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noise legislation
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noise contours
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noise decibels
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noise action plan
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road
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Ireland
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Human health and safety INSPIRE
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
User
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no conditions to access and use
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- CC BY 4.0
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This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ]
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- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Environment
- Health
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- Supplemental Information
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Reporting obligation for: Strategic noise maps (DF 4 and DF 8) http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/369
Eionet Central Data Repository http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/ie/eu/noise/df8/envummpda
More Information About Data http://www.epa.ie/monitoringassessment/noisemapping/
Download Data files https://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download
View Data https://gis.epa.ie/EPAMaps/EnvironmentAndWellbeing
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))
- Unique resource identifier
- EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)
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Name Version gml+xml 3.2
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name OGC Web Map Service https://www.inspire.housing.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format
https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM
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- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-12-31
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Statement
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The strategic noise mapping of the major roads across Ireland was undertaken by the National Roads Authority with the support of the local authorities within whose functional areas the major roads were located. They provide supplementary information relating to the Noise Action Plans developed in 2013 for the major roads in Ireland as part of the second round of the implementation of the EC Directive 2002/49/EC. The Directive was transposed in Ireland as Statutory Instrument, S.I. 140 of 2006, Environmental Noise Regulation 2006.
There were a total of approximately 8,300 kilometers of major roads identified as exceeding the flow threshold of 3 million passages per year. There was approximately 806 km of major roads inside the agglomeration of Dublin, 164 km of major roads inside the agglomeration of Cork, and approximately 7,330 km of major roads outside the two agglomerations.
Action Plans were drawn up for major roads which include sections of designated National roads, and non-National roads, within each of the 34 local authority areas.
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- File identifier
- 24796816-a30e-458d-818e-9c216edccdfb XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-09-23T00:00:00
- Metadata standard name
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive
- Metadata standard version
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TG 2.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Point of contact
