LIFE DYNAMAP: an overview of the project after two years working

In 2014 the LIFE DYNAMAP project moved its first steps towards the development of a system able to detect and represent in real time the acoustic impact of road infrastructures. Aim of this project is to ease and reduce the cost related to the update of noise maps required by the European Directive 2002/49/EC on environmental noise. To that end, an automatic monitoring system, based on customized low-cost sensors and a software tool implemented on a general purpose GIS platform, was foreseen to be developed and built in two pilot areas located along the A90 motorway that surrounds the city of Rome (Italy) and inside the agglomeration of Milan (Italy). After two years working, focused on the design of the system and the development of hardware and software components, the project is now approaching the next experimental phase where the first prototype of the Dynamap System will be installed and tested. A one-year survey will then be undertaken to check the reliability, effectiveness and efficiency of the system. In this paper, a general overview of the project, of its progress and of the main results achieved so far are described.