Guidance on the valuation of transport-related residential noise
Executive Summary
Previously, the Department for Transport (DfT) commissioned the University of East Anglia to undertake research into the value of transport noise in Birmingham, combining hedonic pricing methods and an advanced GIS approach to noise mapping. The results were published twelve months ago, to widespread interest in the UK and internationally (Bateman et al 2004).
DfT decided that it wished, in principle, to use the results of that study as a basis for extending monetary valuation in transport appraisal, and commissioned ITS and TSG to assist with the additional tasks:
- checking the robustness of the Birmingham study;
- benchmarking the results against other European work;
- considering issues relating to the transfer of the results across UK locations and through time from the original 1997 Birmingham data; and
- investigating how to integrate the new knowledge with the existing methods for noise measurement and prediction, and with the Department's Transport Analysis Guidance (published online as 'WebTAG' at http://www.webtag.org.uk/ - DfT, 2005).
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