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1.Introduction
2.Planning foundations
3.Traffic noise
4.Industrial noise
5.Noise from sports and leisure facilities
6.Noise abatement plans / Noise action plans
7.Planning indications
8.Bibliography
9.Thematic Websites
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  1.   Introduction
 
  2.   Planning foundations
  2.1   General legal foundations
  2.1.1   Pollution control rights
  2.1.2   Building law
  2.1.3   Civil Code, Criminal Code and Administrative Offences Act
  2.2   The physical terms "sound" and "noise"
  2.3   Noise, sound emission and sound immission
  2.4   Acoustic principles
  2.4.1   The sound scale
  2.4.2   Calculation rules
  2.4.3   Definitions of further terms
  2.4.4   Noise measurements
  2.4.4.1   The relevance of noise measurements
  2.4.4.2   The realization of measurements
  2.4.4.3   The measurement devices
  2.5   The effect of noise protection constructions
  2.6   Summary of noise assessment values based on immission values
 
  3.   Traffic noise
  3.1   Road and railway noise
  3.1.1   Legal foundations
  3.1.2   Calculation and assessment foundations
  3.1.2.1   DIN 18005-1: Noise abatement in town planning
  3.1.2.2   16th Federal Immission Control Ordinance: Traffic Noise Ordinance
  3.1.2.3   VLärmSchR 97: Guidelines for Traffic Noise Protection at
Federal Highways of Public Easement
  3.1.2.4   RLS-90: Guidelines for Noise Protection at Roads
  3.1.2.5   Schall 03: Guideline for the Calculation of
Sound Immissions from Railways
  3.2   Aircraft noise
 
  4.   Industrial noise
  4.1   Legal foundations
  4.2   Calculation and assessment foundations
  4.2.1   DIN 18005-1: Noise abatement in town planning
  4.2.2   TA Lärm: Technical Instructions on Noise
  4.2.3   VDI guideline 2571: Sound radiation from industrial buildings
 
  5.   Noise from sports and leisure facilities
  5.1   Legal foundations
  5.2   Calculation and assessment foundations
  5.2.1   18th Federal Immission Control Ordinance:
Ordinance on the Prevention of Noise from Sports Facilities
  5.2.2   Indications on the clearance between sports facilities
and residential developments
  5.2.3   Guideline for Leisure Noise
  5.2.4   VDI guideline 3770: Characteristic noise emission values of
sound sources – Sports and leisure facilities
  5.2.5   Noises from popular sport facilities and indications
on the clearances to residential development
 
  6.   Noise abatement plans / Noise action plans
  6.1   Directive on Environmental Noise
  6.2   Noise maps
  6.3   Noise action plans
 
  7.   Planning indications
  7.1   Road and rail traffic
  7.1.1   Reduction of emissions
  7.1.2   Planning of roads and railways (routing)
  7.1.3   Road and railtrack surfaces
  7.1.4   Traffic volume and traffic calming
  7.1.5   Driving speed and traffic calming
  7.1.6   Noise barriers
  7.2   Air traffic
  7.3   Industrial noise
  7.3.1   The assessment of noise from industrial and
commercial uses and installations
  7.3.2   The acoustically sensible structuring of commercial
areas and sound allocation
  7.3.3   The development of commercial areas
  7.3.4   Constructional noise abatement measures at the source of emission
  7.4   Noise from sports and leisure facilities
  7.5   Noise as a subject of weighing in city planning
 
  8.   Bibliography
 
  9.   Thematic Websites