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Noise and vibrations protection on Croatian Railways network

Reduction of noise and vibrations from railway traffic is one of the main tasks in which engineers are engaged today, with the purpose of achieving comfortable living conditions in settlements situated immediately next to railway lines. In the last few years, efforts have been made in Europe to switch as much cargo transport from roads to railways as possible, due to which the importance of railways has been constantly increasing. The result of redirecting transport is disburdening of the road network, increasing of passenger and cargo transport on the railway, but also increasing of noise and vibrations from railway traffic. In order to select an adequate measure for their reduction, it is necessary to register the situation in the environment on the subject location, analyze a possibility of application of particular measures and make a relevant decision about which measure is most cost-efficient to apply. For a more complete consideration of the problem of increased noise and vibrations, an incentive was started in Croatian Railways 2009 to establish a trial section on which field tests would be carried out in cooperation with scientific institutions within scientific-research projects, and thus achieve the effect of a particular measure. The paper analyzes the plan of researches on the future test section as a whole, and it also gives a detailed presentation of measures for reduction of noise and vibrations that are undertaken on reconstructed railway lines, and of the measures that are planned to be undertaken on future lines in the Croatian Railways network.

Railway traffic; reduction of noise and vibrations;

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