Combined effects of noise and vibration from train and road traffic

Railway traffic causes both noise and vibrations in surrounding areas. To enable effective planning of reduction measures that may reduce adverse health effects, it is important to gain a better knowledge about the coupling of these effects to noise and vibration exposures from train and road traffic. These exposures may in fact increase in the future, due to increasing traffic intensity with both faster and heavier trains. The Swedish Rail Administration, Banverket has granted research resources to conduct a research project named TVANE, Train Vibration and Noise Exposure that has started in 2006 and will be carried out until 2010.