The subject of this Thematic Working Group is Transport, Urban Environment, and Health.
The TWG is currently composed of 24 experts from 16 institutes, as following:
BASt: Anja Baum
CDV: Rudolf Cholava
DLR: Hans Schlager
HIT: Evangelos Mitsakis & Dimitri Margaritis
IFSTTAR: Jacques Lambert (contact person) & Aurélie Charron (contact person)
KTI: Kriszian Uhlik
LET: Cristina Pronello
POLITO: Valentina Rappazzo
TNO: Henk Miedema & Yvonne de Kluizenaar
TØI: Ronny Klaeboe, Aslak Fyhri, Astrid Amundsen, Rolf Hagman & Knut Veisten
TTEF: Vlada Djoric
TTI: Irina Yatskiv & Mihail Savrasov
UPM: Guillermo Arcas & Jose Maria Lopez
UVEG: Pedro.Perez@irtic.uv.es
VGTU-TMI: Aldona Jarasuniene
VTI: Mats Gustafsson
Objective
- bringing together ECTRI researchers working within the field of noise and noise related quality of life and health issues
- providing a platform for further areas of cooperation
Planned activities:
Group reseach activities focused on transport related emissions and their impact
on welfare and health, and on dedicated measures to reduce the environmental
and health impacts of road transport in urban areas
forming the core of consortia for submitting proposals for FP7 calls
- establishing a matrix of competences within ECTRI that can aid cross pollination for national research and for establishing ad hoc groups for writing bilateral, EC and international research proposals
- establishing and sharing common knowledge resources
- establishing and providing access to common ECTRI toolkits, and methodologies
FP7 project ENNAH:
Several experts of this TWG are involved in a FP7 project called "ENNAH - European Network on Noise And Health". The coordinator of the project is Queen Mary & Westfield College (QMUL), United Kingdom. The project involves 27 partners, including ECTRI members DLR, IFSTTAR, TNO and TØI.
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