Survey of Noise Regulations and Standards for Railway

초록

Railway noise is one of the most important sources of modern life. But due to the characteristic of public transportation system, setting up of noise regulation standard for railway has been delayed. In Europe the emission noise standard for airplane and road traffic had been regulated from a couple of decade but railway from some years before. The regulation standard for railway noise was put into operation from European countries. Especially from the late 1980's to 1990's, the noise standard for regulation was applied to mainly newly constructed lines rather than conventionally existed lines, From early time, in Japan the noise standard for high speed railway has been statued. In other countries high speed railway noise was generally regulated by modified using of noise standards for road traffics or conventional railways. In this paper, emission noise standard and reception noise standard for railway of major countries will be respectively compared and finally the regulation status and future of Korean railway are followed.