INSPIRE Strategic noise maps. Noise contour map for major railways – Lnight

This is a polygon dataset of the strategic noise mapping of rail, which were identified as those rail exceeding the flow threshold of 30,000 vehicle passages per year, in the form of noise contours for the Lnight (night) period for Dublin and Cork agglomerations and the major rail 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.

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Alternate title

INSPIRE Strategic Noise Mapping of Railways Round 3 2017 Lnight
Date (Revision)
2018-10-19T00:00:00
Date (Creation)
2018-10-08T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2018-10-08T00:00:00
Citation identifier
EPA / AM.IE.EPA.NOISE_Rd3_Railway_Lnight
Purpose

The strategic noise mapping of the major heavy rail network across Ireland was undertaken by the Irish Rail, with support from the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) who are responsible for mapping noise emissions associated with operational Luas light rail lines in Dublin. They provide supplementary information relating to the Noise Action Plans developed in 2013 for the major rail network 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
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Informatics

gis@epa.ie

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

INSPIRE priority data set

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

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

  • noise measurement

  • noise exposure plan

  • noise type

  • noise legislation

  • noise level

  • noise monitoring

Environmental Protection Agency

  • noise legislation

  • noise contours

  • noise decibels

  • noise action plan

  • rail

ISO 3166

  • IE
Use limitation

no limitations
Use limitation

Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0
Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
50000
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Health
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Begin date
2012-01-14T00:00:00
End date
2015-04-17T00:00:00
Supplemental Information

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

Reference system identifier
EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/29902

EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset 2009-11-25

Reference system identifier
EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
Name Version

Area Management/Restriction/Regulation Zones and Reporting Units GML Application Schema

3.1
Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Noise Manager

gis@epa.ie

Publisher
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://inspire.geohive.ie/geoportal/csw?SERVICE=CSW&REQUEST=Getcapabilities

Discovery Service

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 		https://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/ows?service=WFS&request=getcapabilities

Download Service

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 		https://gis.epa.ie/geoserver/EPA/wms?service=WMS&request=getcapabilities

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Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

D2.8.III.11 INSPIRE Data Specification on Area Management/Restriction/Regulation Zones and Reporting Units – Technical Guidelines
Alternate title

INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
Date (Publication)
2013-12-10
Explanation

The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

Pass
No

Conformance 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

Alternate title

INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

Level of conformance with the 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

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata

Alternate title

INSPIRE Metadada Regulation
Date (Publication)
2008-12-04
Explanation

Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata

Pass
Yes
Statement

The strategic noise mapping of the major heavy rail network across Ireland was undertaken by the Irish Rail, with support from the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA) who are responsible for mapping noise emissions associated with operational Luas light rail lines in Dublin. They provide supplementary information relating to the Noise Action Plans developed in 2013 for the major rail network 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.

Major Rail is classified as the network extent where rail traffic exceeds 30,000 vehicle passages per year.

The Irish Rail Working Timetable was used to determine the traffic on the rail network for 2011. This Working Timetable includes for all scheduled train movements on the rail network, including revenue and non-revenue movements (i.e. passenger trains, freight trains, empty trains and other non-passenger trains).

Irish Rail prepared a report detailing the extent of noise mapping for Round 2 for the Irish Rail heavy rail network. The report demonstrated the following:

• Owning to the reduction of the Major Rail threshold to 30,000 vehicle passages per year the majority of rail in the Dublin Agglomeration area is classified as Major Rail in 2011. Therefore, for the Round 2 Strategic Noise Mapping it was considered appropriate to utilise the Round 1 ‘All Rail’ dataset to represent the Round 2 ‘Major Rail’ in the Dublin Agglomeration Area.

• The train passage numbers within the Cork Agglomeration Area are below the rail traffic threshold for Major Rail.

• The only section of Major Rail, outside of the Dublin Agglomeration Area, is a 36km stretch on the Dublin to Cork mainline, extending out of the Dublin Agglomeration Area to Cherryville Junction.

The Luas Red Line links Tallaght with Connolly Station and went into public service in September 2004. Since December 2009, Luas Docklands, the extension of the Luas Red Line to The Point commenced passenger services. The line serves the IFSC and the area east of the Royal Canal. Luas Citywest is the extension of the Luas Red Line (Connolly to Tallaght) to Citywest and Saggart. Red Line services pass through the administrative areas of Dublin City Council (DCC) and South Dublin County Council (SDCC).

The Luas Green Line, which extends from Sandyford to St. Stephen’s Green, went into public service in June 2004. Luas Cherrywood commenced services in 2010 and extends the existing Luas Green Line (St. Stephen’s Green to Sandyford) to Cherrywood and Bride’s Glen. Green Line services pass through the administrative areas of DCC and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (DLRCC).

The extent of the Luas railway source incorporated in mapping was 39km in length.

Metadata

File identifier
cca06595-2ec2-4b0d-b5c0-b7295ffc35bd XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-08-18T11:05:27.187Z
Metadata standard name

ISDI Metadata Profile + COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive
Metadata standard version

1.2
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Data Analyst

gis@edenireland.ie

Point of contact
 
 

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Keywords

Environmental Protection Agency

noise action plan noise contours noise decibels noise legislation rail
GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

noise exposure plan noise legislation noise level noise measurement noise monitoring noise type
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units


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