Development of Methodologies
and Means for Noise Protection of Urban
Areas—Project Results
Zlatan Šoški´ c , Milan Kolarevi´ c , Branko Radiˇ cevi´ c ,
Momir Prašˇ cevi´ c , and Vladan Grkovi´ c
Abstract The paper presents the results of the Serbian national project “Development of methodologies and means for noise protection of urban areas” after eight
years of work (2011–2018). Initially designed to last for four years; the project was
extended and represented an important contribution to the development of technological basis for creation and implementation of noise protection policies in Serbia.
The paper has presented the resources committed to the realization of the project,
publications, registered technical achievements, as well as Ph.D. thesis and other
results achieved in the course of the project duration. The project impact and a lack
of an institutional response up to now are also discussed.
1 Introduction
In 2009, the Government of Republic of Serbia has passed the law on environmental
noise protection [1] that addressed subjects in charge for environmental noise protection, means and conditions for environmental noise protection, measurements of
environmental noise, access to information about noise surveillance and other topics
of relevance for environmental and health protection. Further, directions were defined
by respective regulations [2], guidelines [3–7] and standard [8] that are relevant to
environmental noise protection and are in line with the Directive 2002/49/EC [9] of
European Parliament and The Council of The European Union.
However, majority of the measures prescribed by the regulations were not
supported by the existence of relevant accredited institutions, noise protection means
available at market and adequate software support. Proposed as a response to a call
of the Serbian Ministry for Science and Technology, the project “Development of
Z. Šoški´ c (B) · M. Kolarevi´ c · B. Radiˇ cevi´ c · V. Grkovi´ c
Faculty of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in Kraljevo,
University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
e-mail: soskic.z@mfkv.kg.ac.rs
M. Prašˇ cevi´ c
Faculty of Occupational Safety, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
N. Herisanu and V. Marinca (eds.), Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical
Structures—AVMS 2019, Springer Proceedings in Physics 251,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54136-1_12
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and Means for Noise Protection of Urban
Areas—Project Results
Zlatan Šoški´ c , Milan Kolarevi´ c , Branko Radiˇ cevi´ c ,
Momir Prašˇ cevi´ c , and Vladan Grkovi´ c
Abstract The paper presents the results of the Serbian national project “Development of methodologies and means for noise protection of urban areas” after eight
years of work (2011–2018). Initially designed to last for four years; the project was
extended and represented an important contribution to the development of technological basis for creation and implementation of noise protection policies in Serbia.
The paper has presented the resources committed to the realization of the project,
publications, registered technical achievements, as well as Ph.D. thesis and other
results achieved in the course of the project duration. The project impact and a lack
of an institutional response up to now are also discussed.
1 Introduction
In 2009, the Government of Republic of Serbia has passed the law on environmental
noise protection [1] that addressed subjects in charge for environmental noise protection, means and conditions for environmental noise protection, measurements of
environmental noise, access to information about noise surveillance and other topics
of relevance for environmental and health protection. Further, directions were defined
by respective regulations [2], guidelines [3–7] and standard [8] that are relevant to
environmental noise protection and are in line with the Directive 2002/49/EC [9] of
European Parliament and The Council of The European Union.
However, majority of the measures prescribed by the regulations were not
supported by the existence of relevant accredited institutions, noise protection means
available at market and adequate software support. Proposed as a response to a call
of the Serbian Ministry for Science and Technology, the project “Development of
Z. Šoški´ c (B) · M. Kolarevi´ c · B. Radiˇ cevi´ c · V. Grkovi´ c
Faculty of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in Kraljevo,
University of Kragujevac, Kragujevac, Serbia
e-mail: soskic.z@mfkv.kg.ac.rs
M. Prašˇ cevi´ c
Faculty of Occupational Safety, University of Niš, Niš, Serbia
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
N. Herisanu and V. Marinca (eds.), Acoustics and Vibration of Mechanical
Structures—AVMS 2019, Springer Proceedings in Physics 251,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54136-1_12
117