Quiet City Transport (QCITY)

EU-project: research, technological development and implementation of innovative concepts for quieter cities

Noise reduction potentials of local truck routing concepts

Markus Petz ACCON Czech Republic, February, 19th 2008 Question within the project

How big is the noise reduction potential of local truck-routing and truck-restrictions respectively? How big are side effects?

Object: Quantification of the impact of measures within the agglomeration of

SP5 - Design and Final detailed design of selected solutions implementation at Implementation and validation of solutions in validation sites cities concerned. Selection of validation sites for dissemination and promotion purposes. Basis

Investigations on traffic work and examination report:

„Ermittlung von Verkehrsstärken für verschiedene Lkw- Lenkungskonzepte in Stuttgart im Rahmen des EU-Projekts „Quiet City“, Februar 2007;

Universität Stuttgart, Institut für Straßen- und Verkehrswesen, Lehrstuhl für Verkehrsplanung und Verkehrsleittechnik Investigated scenarios

Scenario 0: no transit traffic in Münster and Scenario 1: no transit traffic in Stuttgart with Stammheim exceptions on the roads B 10, B 27-north and B 14-north Stammheim Münster

Zuffenhausen Zuffenhausen

Stuttgart Stuttgart StuttgartStuttgart

Vaihingen Vaihingen

Real situation 2005 Real situation 2006 Investigated scenarios

Scenario 2A: no transit traffic in Vaihingen and Scenario 2B: no transit traffic in Vaihingen Stuttgart with exceptions on the roads B 10, B 27-north and B 14-north

Zuffenhausen Zuffenhausen

B

A

Stuttgart Stuttgart B

A A Vaihingen Vaihingen

Real situation 2007 Prognosis 2008 Investigated scenarios

Scenario 3A: no transit traffic in Zuffenhausen and Scenario 3B: no transit traffic in Zuffenhausen Stuttgart with exceptions on the roads B 10, B 27-north and B 14-north

Zuffenhausen Zuffenhausen

Stuttgart Stuttgart

Vaihingen Vaihingen

Scenario for the evaluation inside Scenario for the evaluation inside Zuffenhausen based on 2006 Zuffenhausen based on 2005 Investigated scenarios

Scenario 4: all measures combined

Stammheim Münster

Zuffenhausen

Stuttgart

Vaihingen

Scenario for the evaluation of the combination of all restrictions Evaluation of the scenarios

Course of action 1. mapping of the different traffic scenarios with a noise calculation program 2. calculation of noise maps and facade levels at residential buildings for all scenarios 3. people exposure statistics (in 1-dB-classes) and aggregation in 5 dBclasses for all scenarios 4. statistics of the area exposed to levels in 5-dB-classes for all scenarios 5. „Noise Score“ – analysis for all scenarios Results: Change of traffic performance - cars

change of the traffic performance each scenario compared to scenario 0 90 000 agglomeration outside the city total agglomeration of Stuttgart 80 000 boundaries Stuttgart 70 000 60 000 50 000 40 000 30 000 20 000 10 000 0 -10 000 -20 000 -30 000 traffic performance [km/24h] [km/24h] traffic performance

∆ -40 000 -50 000 -60 000 -70 000 S4 - S0 S4 - S0 S1 - S0 S4 - S0 S1 - S0 S1 - S0 S2A - S0 S2A - S0 S2B - S0 S3A - S0 S3B S2A - S0 S2A - S0 S2B - S0 S3A - S0 S3B S2A - S0 S2A - S0 S2B - S0 S3A - S0 S3B

cars trucks total (cars + trucks) Results: Change of traffic performance - trucks

change of the traffic performance each scenario compared to scenario 0 90 000 agglomeration outside the city total agglomeration of Stuttgart 80 000 boundaries Stuttgart 70 000 60 000 50 000 40 000 30 000 20 000 10 000 0 -10 000 -20 000 -30 000 traffic performance [km/24h] [km/24h] trafficperformance

∆ -40 000 -50 000 -60 000 -70 000 S1 - S0 S1 - S0 S4 - S0 S1 - S0 S4 - S0 S1 - S0 S4 - S2A - S0 - S2A S0 - S2B S0 - S3A S0 - S3B S0 - S2A S0 - S2B S0 - S3A S0 - S3B S0 - S2A S0 - S2B S0 - S3A S0 - S3B

cars trucks total (cars + trucks) Results: Change of traffic performance - cars and trucks

change of the traffic performance each scenario compared to scenario 0 90 000 agglomeration outside the city total agglomeration of Stuttgart 80 000 boundaries Stuttgart 70 000 60 000 50 000 40 000 30 000 20 000 10 000 0 -10 000 -20 000 -30 000 traffic performance [km/24h] [km/24h] traffic performance

∆ -40 000 -50 000 -60 000 -70 000 S1 - S0 S1 - S0 S4 - S0 S1 - S0 S4 - S0 S1 - S0 S4 - S2A S0 - S2B S0 - S3A S0 - S3B S0 - S2A S0 - S2B S0 - S3A S0 - S3B S0 - S2A S0 - S2B S0 - S3A S0 - S3B S0 -

cars trucks total (cars + trucks) Results: Noise Score - analysis for all scenarios within the City of Stuttgart

Noise Score within the City of Stuttgart

calculated Noise Scores for each residential building Results: Effects on the Noise Score within the total agglomeration change of the Noise Score for levels Lden ≤ 74 dB (each scenario is compared to scenario 0) 3.0E+06

2.5E+06

2.0E+06

1.5E+06 74 dB) 74 ≤ 1.0E+06

5.0E+05

0.0E+00

-5.0E+05

-1.0E+06

-1.5E+06 Noise Score for levels Lden levels for Score Noise Σ -2.0E+06

-2.5E+06

-3.0E+06 total change ( totalchange -3.5E+06 Esslingen Fellbach Gerlingen Korntal-Münchingen -4.0E+06 am Neckar Sindelfingen Stuttgart -4.5E+06 S1 - S0 S2A - S0 S2B - S0 S3A - S0 S3B - S0 S4 - S0 Results: Noise Score - interpretation of all scenarios Results: Effects on the number of people exposed to

levels Lden (total agglomeration) change of the number of people exposed to levels Lden > 65 dB (each scenario is compared to scenario 0) 300

200

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0 n >65dB)

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-1100 total change total(numberLde level people to of exposed -1200

-1300 S1 - S0 S2A - S0 S2B - S0 S3A - S0 S3B - S0 S4 - S0

Ditzingen Esslingen Fellbach Gerlingen Korntal-Münchingen Kornwestheim Leonberg Ludwigsburg Remseck am Neckar Sindelfingen Stuttgart Results: Effects on the number of people exposed to

levels Lden (total agglomeration)

Scenario 1 - Scenario 0

# people > 65 dB / delta # people > 65 dB Results: Effects on the number of people exposed to

levels Lden (total agglomeration)

Scenario 2a - Scenario 0 Results: Effects on the number of people exposed to

levels Lden (total agglomeration)

Scenario 2b - Scenario 0 Results: Effects on the number of people exposed to

levels Lden (total agglomeration)

Scenario 3a - Scenario 0 Results: Effects on the number of people exposed to

levels Lden (total agglomeration)

Scenario 3b - Scenario 0 Results: Effects on the number of people exposed to

levels Lden (total agglomeration)

Scenario 4 - Scenario 0 Results

1. The ban on truck-transit traffic of scenario 1 (which was implemented in 2006 in the frame of clean air plan of the regional capital Stuttgart) is demonstrable effective and does reduce the traffic work and noise exposure within the urban area of Stuttgart. 2. The truck restrictions being implemented within the districts of Vaihingen and Zuffenhausen are able to (further) reduce the noise exposure within city boundaries of Stuttgart 3. The improvement of the noise situation within the city however brings forth a worsening for the surrounding communities. 4. The point balance of the noise exposure is not positive all over, i. e. relocation of heavy load that is enforced by the bans on transit traffic may lead to an increase of the overall noise exposure. 5. Bans on truck traffic may be reasonable as a part of a package of measures if negative effects through relocation can be reduced or compensated with complementary measures. Final Results

Deliverable D5.10. Stuttgart validation site – Town planning (trucks) Performance report of applied measures - Stuttgart will be available at March 2008 on QCity website.

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