Acoustic Measurement and Time-Resolved Traffic-Noise Simulation in the Graefekiez

Kurzfassung

We report about noise measurements that were carried out for several weeks at fixed locations within the Graefekiez in Berlin. The aim was the local long-term assessment of noise emissions in urban agglomerations and the evaluation of the corresponding impact on the residents' quality of life. The on-site measurements are compared to time-resolved traffic-noise simulations in order to investigate the impact of traffic-noise emissions in comparison to other sources of urban noise and to investigate the extent to which numerical traffic noise simulations can represent the actual noise pollution.