Noise contours data reported under Environmental Noise Directive (END) 2017 (vector) - version 2019, Oct. 2019

The data set includes the noise contours which have been reported by countries under the terms of the Environmental Noise Directive (END) by the 33 EEA member countries (EEA-33) excluding Türkiye for the third round of noise mapping in 2017. The data set includes submissions from the countries until 01/01/2019.

According to the END, for major sources of noise (i.e. major roads with more than 3 000 000 vehicle passages a year, major railways with more than 30 000 train passages per year and airports with more than 50 000 movements per year), countries have to submit noise contour maps for at least the >55 dB, >65 dB bands. Noise contour maps for roads, railways, airports and industries in urban agglomerations of more than 100 000 inhabitants need to be represented for at least 60, 65, 70 and 75 dB bands for the day-evening-night period.

The data set is provided in GDB and GPKG files, with all the reported noise contours in vector format by country or region/state (in the case of BE and DE), for major sources at agglomeration level and national level and for both indicators Lden (day-evening-night noise level: the long-term average indicator designed to assess annoyance defined by the END; it refers to an A-weighted average sound pressure level over all days, evenings and nights in a year, with an evening weighting of 5 dB and a night weighting of 10 dB) and Lnight (night noise level: the long-term average indicator defined by the END and designed to assess sleep disturbance; it refers to an A-weighted annual average night period of exposure).

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2019-10-31
Edition

01.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_1_k_noise-contours-end2017_i_2016_v01_r00

Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Custodian
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
1000
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Transportation
  • Health

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2016-01-01 2016-12-31

Extent

N
S
E
W




Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
GEMET

  • noise monitoring

  • airport

  • motorway

  • railway

  • road

  • environmental noise

  • noise

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Liechtenstein

  • EU28 (2013-2020)

  • Switzerland

  • Iceland

  • Norway

Spatial scope

  • European

INSPIRE priority data set

  • Directive 2002/49/EC

  • Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations - industrial noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations – industrial noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)

  • Major airports noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)

  • Major airports noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)

  • Major railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)

  • Major railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)

  • Major roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive)

  • Major roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)

EEA topics

  • Noise

  • Pollution

  • Road transport

  • Transport and mobility

  • Environmental heatlh effects

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
public access limited according to Article 13(1)(e) of the INSPIRE Directive

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

The full noise contour maps data set is in principle only available for EEA internal use. A public version of the data set may in the future be available, excluding those data sets for which there is any limitation or restriction in their use (beyond acknowledgement).

Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • Geopackage

  • GDB

OnLine resource

Direct download (Eionet authentication)

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

The vector data set is an export in GDB and GPKG format from the Noise Spatial Database, which in turn contains all versions delivered by the relevant countries (EU and EFTA) to Reportnet (CDR). The data from Reportnet is automatically incorporated into the database, with the exception of those data sets which require a manual review (due to problems with naming conventions or Coordinate Reference System).

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
7aca9cbb-fb3e-49b3-9e10-578760eda277

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/7aca9cbb-fb3e-49b3-9e10-578760eda277

Date info (Creation)
2020-03-11T16:04:15Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:59:02.70787Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Environmental heatlh effects Noise Pollution Road transport Transport and mobility
GEMET

airport environmental noise motorway noise noise monitoring railway road
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Human health and safety
INSPIRE priority data set

Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - aircraft noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - industrial noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Agglomerations – industrial noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Directive 2002/49/EC Major airports noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Major airports noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Major railways noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Major railways noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive) Major roads noise exposure delineation - night (Noise Directive) Major roads noise exposure delineation day-evening-night (Noise Directive)
Spatial scope

European


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