Noise exposure data reported under Environmental Noise Directive (END) 2017, version 2019, Oct. 2019

The data set includes noise exposure data 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.

The data used cover noise sources specified in the END, such as major roads with more than 3 000 000 vehicle passages a year, mejor railways with more than 30 000 train passages per year and airports with more than 50 000 movements per year, as well as all roads, railways, airports and industries in urban agglomerations of more than 100 000 inhabitants.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2019-10-31
Edition

01.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_10_mio_noise-exposure-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
10000000
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Transportation
  • Health

Extent

N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

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

Extent

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

  • motorway

  • environmental noise

  • noise pollution

  • aircraft noise

  • night noise

  • industrial noise

  • railway

  • road traffic noise

  • noise monitoring

  • exposure

  • human exposure to pollutants

  • traffic noise

  • noise level

  • noise

  • airport

  • road

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Switzerland

  • Norway

  • EU28 (2013-2020)

  • Liechtenstein

  • Iceland

Spatial scope

  • European

INSPIRE priority data set

  • Directive 2002/49/EC

  • Environmental noise exposure (Noise Directive)

  • Population (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations - population (Noise Directive)

  • Agglomerations (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 geospatial background used in this data set (country boundaries) is only available for internal use. Copyright holder: ESRI.

The noise exposure data itself falls under the License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA). In tabular format this data set can be downloaded from https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/data-on-noise-exposure-7 .

Language
English

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

OnLine resource

The NOISE Observation & Information Service for Europe

OnLine resource

Direct download (Eionet authentication)

OnLine resource

https://noise.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/noiseStoryMap/noise_exposure_2019/MapServer

OnLine resource

https://noise.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/noiseStoryMap/noise_exposure_2019/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

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 data used for the map was provided by Member States under the frame of the Environmental Noise Directive. The data correspond to submissions under the 2017 noise mapping obligations and comprises submissions up to 01/01/2019.

This data set contains information on the number of people exposed to 5 decibel (dB) bands for two indicators "Lden : 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, >75" and "Lnight. : 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, > 70". The database covers the noise sources specified in the END (major roads, major railways, major airports and urban agglomerations) and the corresponding number of people exposed to each of the noise sources inside urban areas and outside urban areas. Percentage of people exposed has also been calculated for comparative purposes. The reporting requirements were set to start as from 2005, and the reporting cycle specified in the END is 5 years, with the exposure data submitted in 2007, 2012 and 2017. Details per country on the data submitted are reported on https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/data-on-noise-exposure-7 (END_DF4_DF8_Results_2017_190101.xls).

The geometry of the national boundaries have been extracted from the data used for the EEA template for map production available at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-mapdata-and-templates-gis-5#tab-gis-data (EEA internal).

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
8a876222-166c-45ac-8462-5cdde7503bd3

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/8a876222-166c-45ac-8462-5cdde7503bd3

Date info (Creation)
2020-02-27T07:49:52Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:02:28.454521Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Environmental heatlh effects Noise Pollution Road transport Transport and mobility
GEMET

aircraft noise airport environmental noise exposure human exposure to pollutants industrial noise motorway night noise noise noise level noise monitoring noise pollution railway road road traffic noise traffic noise
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Human health and safety
INSPIRE priority data set

Agglomerations (Noise Directive) Agglomerations - population (Noise Directive) Directive 2002/49/EC Environmental noise exposure (Noise Directive) Population (Noise Directive)
Spatial scope

European


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