EU Noise Map 2016 for High-Intensity Provincial Roads

Noise tax buildings for the base year 2016, established within the framework of the EU Environmental Noise Directive. The dataset is produced every five years and is based on all provincial roads with an intensity of more than 3 million vehicles per year. The data is provided by the Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties.

Use Cases

• Modeling noise exposure for buildings based on high-traffic provincial roads.
• Assessing compliance with the EU Environmental Noise Directive for reporting cycles.
• Analyzing spatial distribution of noise tax liabilities for infrastructure planning.
• Studying long-term noise pollution trends using the five-year update cycle.

Strengths

• Data is produced under a standardized EU directive framework, suggesting consistent methodology.
• Focuses on high-traffic roads with over 3 million vehicles per year, targeting significant noise sources.
• Update cycle of once every five years is defined, allowing for temporal analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count and spatial sample density are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties

Collection Method

Likely derived from traffic intensity models and noise propagation calculations for provincial roads.

Time Range

Base year 2016.

Freshness

Produced every five years; base year is 2016.

Geography

European Union, focusing on provincial roads meeting the traffic threshold.