SoundPLAN
Update News 7.2
Braunstein + Berndt GmbH /
SoundPLAN International LLC
November 2012
Update News 7.2
November 2012
Contents
New developments in version 7.2 - Noise............................................... 1
Highlights
An overview to the 7.2 modifications
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New developments in detail
Volume attenuation areas
Map section, overview map and sheet tools
Filter and import elevation data
Preprocess elevation data for the calculation kernel
Overview of short cut keys in the Geo-Database
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Implemented Standards and Guidelines
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New developments in version 7.2 - Noise
Highlights
Graphical modifications of road cross section
Calculations from the receiver attribute entry box
Re-designed Run-file
Pre-flight of data from the Geo-database
Re-designed color administration
Limitation of the incline addition in the Calculations
Alignment and embankment correction for roads and railways directly
in the DGM without the need for the „embankment tool“
Highlights from various modules
Improved definition of structure lines in the Spreadsheet
Object „detail plan“ and definition of a plan as the overview map with
demarcation of the current detail plan in the overview (Cartography)
Dynamic tiling system (Noise Mapping Toolbox)
BA-Facade now with calculations in accordance to ISO 12354 (single
values without spectra)
Integration of aircraft noise definition into the Geo-database
SoundPLAN 7.2 also comes with many new features in the air pollution modules so that it becomes more and
more attractive to work on air quality investigations with SoundPLAN. Please read about the details on the new
features in a separate update notification.
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Functions not contained in the basic SoundPLAN configuration but only available with the
Cartography addition, are marked with an orange bar on the right hand of the text.
An overview to the 7.2 modifications
 Updates & Downloads
The download function in the SoundPLAN Manager can now be used not only to
download the latest update of the program but also to get system files such as libraries
and templates and also help text, the handbook and demo projects to current status.
SoundPLAN analyzes the files installed on your computer and indicates the dates of the
files available versus the dates on your computer. As soon as the files on the
SoundPLAN web are of a more recent date, they are automatically checked for
download, however you can decide if you want to load these data or are also
interested in loading others. Activate/deactivate the check mark in the box
accordingly.
This way you can for example download the most recent version of the 7.2 manual
even if this version was not updated on the SoundPLAN installation DVD. Another
possibility is to download and install templates and libraries for other regional
markets.
In the lower part of the dialog you can define the path where these data are to be
stored. By default the data are set to be saved to the SoundPLAN Globdata, with the
sub folder Download.
Please assure that you have the administrator rights. Click on DOWNLOAD. The files are
subsequently copied into the download folder you specified. To install/activate the
downloaded files click on INSTALL UPDATES.
Via the download path you can also make the data available in the network to
distribute the update amongst your colleagues or to update multiple computers from
this location.
 Default project coordinate system: In the SoundPLAN Manager under OPTIONS >SETTINGS -> GLOBAL you can define a default project coordinate system that will
automatically be activated for new projects. This is very helpful if your work is mostly
regional with always using the same basic coordinate system.
 When opening result files, the result number (without the calculation type) and the
calculation group (see below) are presented and allow the table to be sorted
accordingly.
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 The module „City Noise Screening“ has become obsolete and is no longer part of
SoundPLAN. If you have projects using this module, please keep a version of
SoundPLAN 7.1 alive.
 The embankment alignment for roads and railway alignments in the DGM is now
completed. Spot heights that lay on the road surface or on the ballast bed of railways
(see below) are excluded from the DGMs triangulation if the appropriate box is
checked.
Calculate railways into the DGM: On the basis of the railway master alignment you can
enter 2 parameters to set the elevation at the foot of the ballast bed (at the moment
only in the Attribute Explorer).
o Delta h between the rail head and the terrain (basically the thickness of the ballast
bed)
o width of the ballast bed to the left and to the right from the master alignment
For road and railway bridges elevation points are triangulated on the surface below
the bridge. Implausible elevation points in the scope of the bridge are not taken into
account. If tunnel portals are included in the calculation, they should be present for
the triangulation.
 Free road emission: For the NMPB 2008 the emission calculation of the Nord2000 road
can be selected to enable a more flexible definition of the emission coefficients. With
this added flexibility it is possible to define your own vehicle types and configure them
in their emission properties (for example to define 2 stroke and 4 stroke driven motor
rickshaws for southeast Asia). For details of the Nord2000 please read the road
documentation from (on www.delta.dk search for User's Guide Nord2000 Road
(2006)).
 Geo-database
o Calculate the noise for a receiver (attached to a building or free field) in the
receiver properties: Open the receiver properties and click on the button
CALCULATE. The calculation results and the level chart are displayed so that you can
check quickly if a planned noise protection wall is sufficient to keep the noise below
the limit or if the noise from a road carries further requiring you to model
additional geometry. The values are only temporary, they are only visible as long as
the receiver properties dialog is open; the values are discarded when this dialog is
closed because the geometry might have changed when opening the dialog the
next time.
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If a receiver is generated for the purpose to calculate the noise levels, it is
necessary to close the properties dialog and re-open it before the noise levels can
be calculated (the receiver otherwise is not fully defined and cannot be calculated).
Under INFO you can see the calculation parameters as they are taken from the
default project calculation settings. The tab Logbook keeps a protocol of the
calculation.
o Modify the road cross section graphically: When a road is activated for editing, the
emission bands and the road edges can be moved manually. Emissions- and border
lines themselves are not presented as „marked“ but the cursor will change in the
proximity of the coordinates into the movement arrow. The object number of the
emission and the border line can be moved along a line marking the bisector
between the last and the next coordinate. Road width and distance of the emission
line to the master alignment are automatically adjusted in accordance to the
manual movement of the coordinates. When the road is displayed with the view
option HIGHLIGHTED the road surface is displayed as a gray band. Press Ctrl+ R (VIEW > REFRESH) to update the display of the road.
o Improved visualization 1: For line type objects in addition to the direction arrow
after the first coordinate arrows between all coordinates mark the direction of data
entry when the presentation “with points” is chosen for view options. The color for
road alignments was darkened to improve the visibility on top of bitmaps.
o Improved visualization 2: To help find problems in the DGM and to set the
beginnings/ends of bridges correctly, you can display elevation lines derived from
the DGM with VIEW -> DGM CONTOUR LINES.
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Enter the elevation spacing in [m]. The closer the elevation lines the longer it will
take to display the elevation lines on screen. If the screen refresh times are
excessive, close the DGM elevation line option and re-open it with a different
spacing.
If you really need the elevation lines in the Geo-Database as an object of its own,
you can generate them by loading the DGM into the graphics and then exporting
the elevation lines in „edit map“ into a Geo-file via EDIT -> EXPORT CONTOUR LINES.
o If your project contains separate coordinate areas and you are using a
transformation to morph them into a single area, you no longer need to save the
situation and re-open it in order to visualize the changes. The new view is
presented as soon as you click the symbol button „overview“.
o The reference to the DGM can now be taken out of a situation by using the del
button in the Situation Manager.
o Insert point before: With a right click on a coordinate, you can generate a new
coordinate before this coordinate. If the point was the first point of the object, a
new first coordinate for the object is generated and the attributes of the previous
first coordinate is transferred to the “new” first coordinate.
o Insert a point at any location in a line object: In addition to the „insert point
before“ and „insert point after“ you can insert new coordinates in a line directly by
selecting the red digitizing cursor and inserting the new coordinate on the object
with a pressed shift key and the right mouse button. The elevation for the new
coordinate is interpolated from the coordinates before and after, it is not read
from the DGM. Graphically inserting coordinates this way helps to insert the
beginning and the end of bridges that might be visible from the background
bitmap. Select F12 to toggle between the digitizing and the edit mode.
o Interpolate elevations: Between selected coordinates of a line type object you can
interpolate the elevations. For example for ramps to motorways where only the
start elevation and the end elevation of the road are known or to smooth elevation
peaks within a line type object. Select the entire object or within an object the
coordinates to interpolate in between (mark first coordinate with a right click and
the last one by keeping the shift key pressed and them marking the last coordinate
with a right click) and then start the GEO-TOOLS -> MORE ELEVATION TOOLS ->INTERPOLATE
ELEVATIONS or Ctrl+ H. You can also use the front or side projection to mark the
beginning and end coordinate for the interpolation.
o Clean-up overlapping areas: With this Geo-tool (GEO-TOOLS -> CLEAN UP OVERLAPPING
AREAS (Shift + U)) smaller areas overlapping a bigger area are cut out.
This tool is useful to make sure contradicting definitions of ground absorption areas
or volume attenuation areas that cause problems in the calculation are corrected.
o Marked points and objects now can also be deleted using the (delete) key (Ctrl key
is no longer required).
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o New shortcut keys: Divide sections (Shift+Ctrl+L), filter (Shift+Ctrl+F), concatenate
objects (Shift+Ctrl+V), adjust road alignment (Shift+Ctrl+S). Change the assignment
of a marked object to a Geo-file (Ctrl+G), change object type (Ctrl+U).
o The property „read only“ or „background“ set fort the Geo-files is now saved with
the Situation.
General areas with the visual attribute „highlighted“ are now presented with a
hatch.
o The Geo-tool connect lines now expects the entry of a maximal distance between
the closest coordinates of the objects to be connected. This distance is interpreted
as the three dimensional distance. With ALT + CONNECT LINES (or Shift+Ctrl+Alt+V) the
height difference is not taken into account, the upper elevation is used.
o Pre-flight: With the tool pre-flight it is now possible to check data of the open
situation directly from the Geo-database. Errors that would cause the Calculation
core to abort are noted in a logbook along with all warnings you normally find in
the calculations logbook. Select TOOLS -> PRE-FLIGHT to trigger the check of the
geometry and open pre-flight log from HELP -> PROTOCOL. If you see an error or
warning message, click on it to open the object in question. The object will display
in maximum size on screen and also opens the attribute definition for the first
coordinate of the object. If the message in the protocol indicates that the problem
is purely a geometric one, close the attribute definitions and correct the
coordinates otherwise amend the attribute definition.
o Adapt road-/ railway course: The Geo-tool adapt road course was improved (see
handbook) was improved and is now also available for railway alignments.
o Filter elevations was split into two sections: „FILTER AND IMPORT ELEVATION DATA“ for
projects for which you want to import elevation spot heights into the Geo-database
and further process the data there (generate a DGM, calculate embankments,
define men height for a building from elevation points, …) and PREPROCESSING
ELEVATION DATA (Module Noise Mapping Toolbox) for projects with huge amounts of
data that are too big to be processed in the Geo-database. See “Filter and import
elevation data“ on page 21.
o For volume attenuation areas (in earlier versions called volume attenuation areas
or volume type absorption areas) the attenuation is now defined separately for
each noise type in accordance to the standard selected for the project, see
“Volume attenuation areas” on page 14.
o Google Earth elevations can now be imported from Google Earth via FUNDAMENTALS > DGM -> GET TERRAIN POINTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH. As the origin of the elevations cannot
be verified and are not very accurate, it is only sensible to use these elevations for
relatively small projects in areas that are not critical for the propagation of noise.
Sharp terrain edges are not getting across from the Google Earth elevations. To
import the elevations, navigate in Google Earth to the area of interest and then
import the terrain points directly from the Geo-database. The elevations are
supplied as a matrix of elevations 65x65 coordinates.
o Each object now allows the use of „free attributes“, to import additional
information that are not required by noise or air pollution calculations but may be
helpful later on to process the data in the attribute explorer. By default 3 text-, 3
integer- and 3 floating point variables are presented. If you need more entries, you
can change the number of attributes under OPTIONS.
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If the free attributes are not displayed in the attribute explorer, use the wheel
symbol to open the object property settings and select the additional attributes
(deactivate SHOW ONLY EXISTING PROPERTIES).
Free attributes can also be used to assign a preload to receivers (single point
calculation) and buildings (Façade Noise Map) for the evaluation in the
Spreadsheet.
Free Attributes are only accessible in the attribute explorer not in the properties of
the objects.
o New object type map section : With this new object you can enter map sections
in the Geo-database or store the current map section in the Graphics as a Geo-file.
See “Map section, overview map and sheet tools” on page 16.
o New object type Tree with the selection of the tree type and the height of the
tree. The additional attributes for the configuration as a rotational symmetrical
object and to define the thickness of the tree trunk are still defined in the object
types of the Graphics. The height of the tree is used to relate to the thickness of the
tree trunk.
 Calculation Core
The Run File was completely revised.
The new look should be familiar to you as it is based on the same table format that
you already know from the Attribute Explorer, the Libraries and others with the
same basic functions such as transferring cell contents to other cells like the auto
complete function in Excel.
Highlights:
 Now the Calculation Core gathers all calculation runs of a project in one single
run file but allows the user to organize them in user definable groups. If an
older project converted to SP 7.2 contained multiple run files, they will be now
saved in a single file with the names of the run files as group names.
 Via filter setting you can filter the calculation runs according to text, calculation
type, group and „to be calculated“.
 Calculation runs can be blocked from executing again, this way unintended
destruction of already performed calculations can be prevented. When
performing a batch-run the grayed out blocked runs are ignored, if you want to
perform a single calculation on a blocked run, you are asked for a confirmation.
 You can also sort in accordance to the columns „last edited“ and „last run“.
o Calculation results are now saved in sub-folders of the project folder so that you
can find all files related to a calculation at the same location. Project folders
become more compact. RES-files are still saved directly to the project folder.
o In the settings for each standard you now find a tab for the definition of the
attenuation due to forests, built up areas and industrial sites, see “Volume
attenuation areas” on page 14.
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o As sometimes 2 close coordinates are having an elevation difference that leads to
excessive inclines, the program allows averaging of the incline over a user defined
distance in the properties of the road standard, tab Emission. Whatever was used
will be found in the logbook. The default setting for the averaging is taking the
average for a section of 15 m of road length. The incline can also be limited to a
specific value to prevent unrealistic local level spikes when the DGM is not quite
good.
o Via ADD EXISTING RUN FILE you can open run files from other projects for example to
combine calculations from multiple smaller projects as a Distributed Computing
batch run.
o Tiled calculations now continue with the next tile if for whatever reason one of the
tiles cannot be calculated.
o For Distributed Computing the data transfer from the starting PC to the
computation servers was vastly improved which will start your calculation more
quickly.
o When calculating in tiles now additional information for the tiles is available with
VIEW -> TILES: green hatches indicate that no receivers are in the tile; red hatches
indicate that no sources have been found.
 SoundPLAN Spreadsheet
Formatting structure and statistics lines is now much easier and contains a pre-view.
 The x position for individual fields of a structure line can now be set with a
pocket calculator automatically for the longest field, in addition you can
automatically set the spacing between the fields (it is still possible to manually
set each field width).
 In the pre-view the longest entry of the table is presented. If you are using a
template from another project that contains structure lines you can use the
definition mask to quickly verify that the settings harmonize with the data you
have in the table.
 Via the check mark in the column XREL you can define if the field has a fixed
relationship to the previous field. If for example you want to see „Noise limit
day/night“ in the structure line, you can place a check mark in the field XREL
and the setting of „0“ for the x position of the column „noise limit night“, to
write the noise limit for night directly behind the noise limit for day.
 The section layout is now also accessible from the definition mask for the block
structure.
 The functions (sum, average, max, …) and the section layout are now selected
directly from the line and no longer via a separate selection list. To anchor a
function or a section layout for multiple lines, select them once and pull the
yellow frame around all lines.
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 Graphics
o For the movement in the 3D-graphics you can now select how the mouse and its
functions shall be interpreted. For example what is the reaction to rotating the
mouse wheel forward: zoom in or zoom out. With Ctrl+ M you can customize the
movements how you see best fit. The same settings are used also in the other
places where the 3D-graphics is active – WallDesign, the Expert System and the
Geo-database.
o The color administration was converted from color numbers to RGB values. This
means that objects and intervals are directly assigned a color and no longer a
position in a color palette. The color palette now has morphed into an assortment
of favorite colors. With the check mark EXTENDED you can always define a new color
and assign it to an object or an interval without having to save it in the color
palette. Select your color and click on OK. The extended color dialog automatically
opens for colors not contained in the favorites.
Modifications:
Rotating the color wheel in a color field will proportionally vary all RGB
components while rotating the mouse wheel in one of the components will only
vary the individual component.
The symbol „set black“ remains active as long as you keep the left mouse button
pressed. This allows you to quickly erase no longer desired color favorites with the
left mouse button.
With Drag&Drop you can move a color from one field to another for example to
have colors in between automatically interpolated.
The color favorites are only saved in the GlobData-folder, there are no separate
sheet and project color combinations anymore.
o A positive effect of the new color administration is that you now can save scales
separately and open them from other projects via the file selection or via INSERT
ELEMENT.
SAVE ELEMENT And ENSERT ELEMENT is now also available using the right mouse button.
o It is now possible to interpolate colors within the scale for example to quickly
generate a difference scale.
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Select the colors between which you want to interpolate, select the color lines in
between and set them with the symbol button to black.
Now click on the symbol for the calculator.
o With the collaboration of map section, overview map and the sheet tools it is now
very easy to automate the generation of plans for very big areas or along a planned
route of road or rail. Plans can be generated, printed and exported in various
formats.
See “Map section, overview map and sheet tools” on page 16.
o For (border) lines – including contour lines – you now can define a LINE POSITION: The
line can be drawn directly on the digitized line and also bordering to the left/right
or in a defined spacing. The border of areas can be set to be outside the area or
included in the area. Special effects are possible when you define a second (border)
line with different colors, line width, type and position (example on the left below).
For area borders of adjacent areas the quality improves when the lines are
remaining completely inside the area (example on the right below).
o Inserted volume attenuation areas or ground effect absorption areas are presented
as „holes“, if the volume attenuation areas are defined with an effective height of 0
meters and the ground absorption areas are defined with a ground factor of 1.0.
o New text variables „scale unit“, „height above ground” (Grid Noise Map) “selected
floor “ (Façade Noise Map) and „plan name“.
o The scale can now be presented with a mark for each thousands.
o New short cut keys for the sheet manager F5 and the sheet components F6.
 Tools Noise Action Planning
o Bridge Detection: The geo tool Bridge Detection (GEO-TOOLS -> MORE ELEVATION TOOLS > BRIDGE DETECTION) automatically detects bridges automatically from the slope of
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terrain points. It sets the marks for the beginning and end of bridges with a width
of 10 m to the left and to the right and adjusts the elevations of coordinates on the
bridge. Bridge additions for railway bridges must be defined by hand in the
attribute explorer.
Although this tool is still in the „test phase“ it is a great help to detect bridges
spanning valleys.
o Generate areas around emission bands: With Shift + GEO-TOOLS –> MORE GEOMETRIE
TOOLS -> CREATE BUFFER areas around the emission bands of roads are generated, the
width of the band left and right of the emission line is set with the entered
parameter. The buffer is selected so that you can quickly select building with EDIT ->
SELECT OBJECTS VIA AREA OR LINE to detect where the emission band is in conflict with
buildings.
o Simplify buildings: With the GEO-TOOL ->MORE BUILDING TOOLS -> CLEAN WALL LEDGES
(Shift + M) you can cut off small outcroppings of buildings and thus simplify the
buildings. This way you can prevent the program from calculating excessive
numbers of receivers for a Façade Noise Map at places that are not relevant.
Enter the maximal width of the outcropping on a facade that is supposed to be
rectified. By default this parameter is set to 1 meter.
If the wall outcropping is not on the border of the building, the program will
automatically set a coordinate to separate the facade.
o Unite areas: Mainly to unite annexes to buildings and to unite fractured area
sources and parking lots use GEO TOOLS -> MORE BUILDING TOOLS -> UNITE AREAS (Shift +
W) (the smaller area is annexed into the bigger one). Enter the maximal area size in
square meters that is to be included into the bigger one. For the tool to function
the bigger area must be at least twice the set size of maximum area size.
Areas shall not overlap. If you suspect that you have overlapping areas, first use the
Geo tool „CLEAN UP OVERLAPPING AREAS “(see above).
o Dynamic tiling system: Experience with the tiling system indicates that for very big
projects a fixed tiling size is not optimal. Now SoundPLAN allows you to adapt the
tile sizes to your needs for the Geo-database and for the Graphics. For the
calculations a tile size of 2 x 2 km has proved itself as it delivers an optimal
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relationship between loading and calculation time and yields data size that are still
manageable.
New menu bar in the tile manager:
A new addition is the possibility to zoom within the tile manager. Click on the
symbol button ZOOM or use the mouse wheel.
o Prepare elevation data: Elevation data are tiles with a tile size of 10 x 10 [km] and
saved to a project sub-folder.
Select one or multiple clipping areas for the preparatory steps.
Saving the elevation file was sped up considerably.
Elevation spot heights from different data sources (for example with varying
elevation accuracy) can now be compiled into a consistent data basis without
compromising the data quality in the overlapping area.
As soon as the program detects that there are overlapping areas, the program will
ask how to proceed: Replace the data with the new data, delete data in the
overlapping area before the new data are added or keep the already existing
elevation data in the overlapping area is you know that these have a higher
accuracy than the new data.
 BA Outside
o The calculation is now also available in accordance to ISO 12354 using broad band
single values.
When starting a room book for BA Outside select the room assessment (at present
only rooms from VDI 2719) spectrum adaption term for the noise type (C, Ctr).
o The facade correction of the ISO 12354 can be used for all standards.
o The dialog „component details“ is now obsolete. All required definitions are made
directly in the component list. You can activate/deactivate the columns for library
elements with (Ctrl+L), for cost (Ctrl+K) and for cost calculations (Ctrl+Shift+K)
when the project is started or in the ROOM BOOK -> SETTINGS. Additionally you can
toggle the columns with a right click on the column header.
o The value for R’w can now directly be entered or modified using the mouse wheel.
o A right click on R’w now opens a menu with the selection own values, library or
component calculation DIN 4109.
o Via FILE -> UPDATE SOUNDPLAN RESULTS you can update the outside facade noise levels if
you have made a new outside noise calculation.
o Inserted graphics can be placed more easily for multiple rooms (for example for
multiple floors with the same floor plan):
Via GRAPHICS -> ASSIGN IMAGE DETAIL TO CHILD ELEMENTS you can for example transfer the
graphics viewport of an apartment to all rooms.
In the selection mode (arrow symbol) the graphics can be transferred with
Drag&Drop to another element of the current object.
In order to prevent accidental zooming, the mouse wheel in the selection mode is
deactivated.
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o For the printout you can now choose between „entire project“, „current building“
and „current selection“. Aside from this the building, floor and apartment pages
can be suppressed.
 Aircraft Noise
o The definitions for aircraft noise are now integrated into the Geo-database. Find
the new symbol buttons for airport, runway, flight path and APU in the symbol bar.
When you click on one of the aircraft noise objects the data entry dialogs
automatically opens.
o Cross section maps are now also available for aircraft noise.
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Volume attenuation areas
Principally there are three types of volume attenuation areas:
- Foliage (forest, brushwood): Afol
- Built-up areas (buildings that are not defined explicitly and are only included in the
average attenuation effect): Ahouse
- Industrial area: Asite
The name, the effective height above the DGM and the type of volume attenuation area
are defined in the volume attenuation area properties of the Geo-database.
How volume attenuation areas shall be calculated is only defined in a few standards and
not all of the possible volume attenuation areas are mentioned in these standards. For
this reason the settings for each standard now allow you to select how the volume
attenuation areas –for each type of area- shall be treated by the program. Select from the
standard options.
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Depending on the selection of the standard for road, railway, industry and parking lots
and the selection of the standard for the assessment of the volume attenuation areas, the
parameters of the volume attenuation areas are shown when the box SHOW DETAILS is
checked.
In principal the attenuation is calculated as the product of the length of the transmission
path through the volume attenuation area and the attenuation per distance a. Here the
mitigation per distance can be set as a fixed value of be calculation from other
parameters.
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Possible standards for the calculation of the attenuation:
Foliage:
 No attenuation (Afol=0)
Attenuation due to foliage is ignored.
 User defined
Afol [dB] = d * a(f) <=Amax
a(f) is a user specified mitigation value that can be defined as spectral values in
octaves. If the calculation standard only calculated broad band values, the mitigation
for 500 [Hz] will be used.
Amax can be adjusted in the settings of the standard.
 ISO9613-2
d < 10 m
10 m <= d < 20 m
20 m <= d < 200 m
d >= 200 m
Afol [dB] = 0
Afol [dB] = A10-20
Afol [dB] = d * a(f)
Afol [dB] = 200 m * a(f)
A10-20 and a(f) are fixed.
 ÖAL28
Afol [dB] = Min(4, Trunc(d/50)) * a(f)
a(f) is fixed.
 Nord2000
Afol [dB] = d * a(f)
a(f) is calculated from the average tree density, the mean tree trunk diameter and a
mean absorption coefficient. Default values are selected for best fit with ISO9613-2.
 NTAcou099
Afol [dB] = d * (4 * a(f) + 5) / 200
a(f) is fixed.
Built-up areas
 No attenuation (Ahouse=0)
Volume attenuation areas for buildings are ignored.
 User defined
Ahouse [dB] = d * a(f) <=Amax
a(f) is a user specified attenuation value that can be entered for an octave band. If the
calculation is broad band the value for 500 [Hz] is used.
Amax can be adjusted in the settings of the standard.
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Ahouse [dB] = d * a(f) - Agr
a(f) is a user specified mitigation value that can be entered for an octave band. If the
calculation is broad band the value for 500 [Hz] is used
Amax can be adjusted in the settings of the standard
Agr is the dampening due to the ground effect.
 Nord 2000
Ahouse [dB] = d * a(f)
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a(f) is calculated from various parameters to set the properties of the volume
attenuation area.
Industrial site
 No attenuation (Asite=0)
Industrial site volume attenuation areas are ignored.
 User defined
Asite [dB] = d * a(f) <=Amax
a(f) is a user specified attenuation value that can be defined as spectral values in
octaves. If the calculation standard only calculated broad band values, the mitigation
for 500 [Hz] will be used.
Amax can be adjusted in the settings of the standard.
 ISO 9613-2
Asite [dB] = d * a(f) <=10 dB
a(f) is fixed.
 Nord 2000
Asite [dB] = d * a(f)
a(f) is calculated from various parameters to set the properties of the volume
attenuation area.
Map section, overview map and sheet tools
Generate Map Sections
Some of the features are only available when the module “Noise Mapping Toolbox” is
licensed. Map sections are very helpful if you want to present multiple sheets with the
same content but varying sections (viewports), i.e. if you have a single Grid Noise Map and
want to divide the presentation into many sections like a world atlas. You can automate
the generation of multiple sheets with ease and thus can present your findings with a high
resolution on multiple pages.
You can generate the map sections manually from the Geo-database or automated
directly from the Graphics. Map sections are always rectangles. In the Graphics you can like in previous versions- process the map viewport in Edit Map. For licenses without the
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Cartography module the map section is saved as a general area and the sheet name as a
GeoText. When the Cartography module is present the section is saved as a new object
type, the map section and is to be saved under user defined names.
To generate the map sections in the Graphics, you need a “template sheet” with a plan
which has the desired size and scale.
The current map viewport can be saved as a Geo file via EDIT MAP/GEOMETRY VIEWPORT -> SAVE
CURRENT MAP SECTION AS GEO FILE.
A typical application for this procedure is to create multiple map section frames along the
route of a planned road or railway. Load the Geo file with the map section into the
situation along with the base data you want to present and duplicate the map section and
rotate and move it in plane. To duplicate the map section mark it and move the cursor to
the purple route in the middle of the object and with the ALT + left mouse button move a
copy of the object to a new location. You can rotate the new map section with Ctrl +left
mouse button movement. All new map sections need to be hosted in the same Geo.
As an alternative to the manual generation of map sections in the Geo-database you
sometimes want to generate a grid of plans covering the entity of the entire map. Create
your “template sheet”, load it in the Graphics (inclusive of the calculation area) and via
Edit map GEOMETRY VIEWPORT -> CREATE MAP SECTIONS FOR ENTIRE CALCULATION AREA create a grid
of map sections to display the entire calculation area in the desired resolution.
You can decide to generate map sections covering a rectangle around the calculation are
or only the sections that contain part of the calculation area.
The map sections are automatically named according to your settings:
1. Continuously numbered
2. Rows as letters, columns as numbers
3. Columns as letters, rows as numbers
4. Middle coordinates X/Y in [km]
5. X/Y of the top left corner in [km]
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4. and 5. Are only available when the middle coordinates are set to kilometers and the
map has the size of multiple kilometers so that the maps are not overlapping.
Example: The scale factor is set to 1:10.000 and the map shall have the dimension of 200 x
200 mm. If the map shall feature a frame of 5 mm, the map size must be set to 210 x 210
mm.
You can format the section name for example to insert an additional identifier or a
separator between the variables for example to display the default section name
X3530Y5422 as X3530/Y5422.
The section names can be included as a text into the plan with the function “Show
attributes as text” of the file selection manager. Include the parameter Tools/Map
section/Name as the text. The file containing the map section however must have been
loaded once in the Geo-database.
Overview map
In the overview map all map sections found in the geo-file are displayed along with the
geometry.
A plan is prepared in Edit Map, GEOMETRY VIEWPORT -> GEOMETRY PARAMETER als marks the
plan as the overview.
Additionally for very large sale investigation areas it is possible to scale the overview map
and center the displayed map section in the overview.
In the map object types select how to format the map sections and -if loaded- the map
section names. The object type CURRENT MAP SECTION IN OVERVIEW MAP determines how the
currently displayed map section shall be highlighted in the overview map.
In accordance to the map section of the overview the data are loaded in the main plan.
The coordinates middle of the section rectangle are calculated and set as the middle
coordinates for the viewport. Select the desired map section from the pop-up-menu (right
mouse button) or with Alt + Left click. With FILE -> MAP SECTION or F7 the map sections are
listed on the left hand side of the screen and can be loaded from there with Drag&Drop.
The TEXT VARIABLE „Map name“ is filled with the map section name as soon as a map
section is selected or defined from the sheet tools.
The TEXT VARIABLE „Map section-text“ can contain additional free text attributes that you
can assign with the Attribute explorer of the Geo database.
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Sheet-Tools
With a sheet that contains map sections or areas (usage areas) it is possible to automate
the generation of sheets, print the sheets or create bitmaps for the sheets. If a Grid Noise
Map is loaded the grid noise map sections can be exported to the ESRI-ASCII-Grids or as a
contour map.
The map section or the area names are used as the text variable „ Plan name“, and for the
sheet and the export file name.
Load or activate the map section / areas via FILE -> MAP SECTION or <F7>.
Select the Geo file with the map section / areas. If an overview map with the selected map
section visible is contained in the sheet, it is automatically set to show the loaded section.
With the wheel select a different Geo-file and go to the settings.
Modifying the map section / areas only changes the middle coordinates of the plan.
Settings for the processing of the map section / areas
CALCULATE ROTATION:
is only sensible for maps that are not set up to be parallel to the
coordinate axis, i.e. sections along a road or railway line. The rotation is measured from
the first line of the section rectangle.
CALCULATE MAP SCALE:
the map section or respectively the MinMax-rectangle of the area is
fitted to the map with regarding the parameter DISTANCE TO THE FRAME. Printing the scale
bar gives a better understanding then using the scale factor numbers.
LOAD RESULTS ONLY IN THE MAP SECTION AREA:
is only sensible for areas as otherwise the data
are loaded for the section anyway.
USE OBJECT TYPE „CALCULATION AREA“:
it only sensible for areas. Via the area the „background“definition in the tab Cartography the plan outside the calculation can be masked.
With OK list all map sections / areas on the left the same way as the sheet tree is listed.
Select a desired map section and load it using the arrow to the right or with Drag & Drop.
To trigger the sheet tools, mark the map sections or select all with <Ctrl+A> and click on
the symbol button SAVE UNDER.
Select the desired action; it is also possible to run them parallel to save time.
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The SETTINGS have been already explained in the chapter for the definition of the map
sections.
generates an SGS file for the map sections / areas with the name of the
section / area so that you can post process the sheets individually.
CREATE SHEETS
prints all marked sheets. The sub folder indicated here is only relevant if you
want to create plot files, i.e. reroute the plotting stream into a file. If you want to create a
PDF file, you need to also observe the settings of the printer driver. Often you can define a
sub folder and use the file name created automatically by SoundPLAN (from the sheet
name).
PRINT SHEETS
exports the grid values in ASCII or GeoTiff format. You can define if
levels on buildings are regarded as sufficient levels and how many digits after the decimal
shall be used.
EXPORT GRID VALUES
exports the results of a Grid Noise Map for the selected
map section / area as an ESRI Shape files (details can be found in the chapter Graphics,
Export of contour lines).
EXPORT CONTOUR LINES TO SHAPE FILES
exports the entire sheet as a bmp, jpg, tif or png. Resolution and
compression parameters are definable.
EXPORT SHEETS AS A BITMAP
only exports the main plan including its frame. If you only are
interested in the plans, set the frame size to 0 in the plan settings.
EXPORT PLAN AS BITMAPS
The file name is important for the execution of the sheet tools: The file name must
contain a “%” as the place holder, the “%” in the file name will be replaced with the map
section name.
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New in the object type „calculation area“
When working with areas set in the sheet tools the option USE OBJECT TYPE CALCULATION AREA,
to allow the following options.
In the object type calculation area, tab Cartography define the method to clip the
background outside the area or have only the basic geometry printed.
Left picture: no effect (with area border), right picture: do not display results
Left picture: Do not display objects, right picture: additionally with background color
When the area outside the calculation area / area is not to be displayed, the area within
the section rectangle between the calculation area and the frame is filled with white or
another background color.
When masking with a special masking color or color intensity settings or converting into
gray scales, first the entire plan is plotted. After this a windows function defines the entire
„clipping area“. For screen and bitmap output this procedure is working well but most
printer drivers cannot cope with this procedure. Additionally print files and PDF files are
becoming so big that it is advisable to first generate a bitmap when working with masking.
Filter and import elevation data
Elevation data in the formats ASCII, ESRI ASCII Grid, GeoTiff or Winput SCOP can be
filtered before they are actually imported.
In case the spot elevations are present in a different format (for example DXF), you can
import the data unfiltered and filter them afterwards in the Geo-Database via GEOTOOLS ->
MORE ELEVATION TOOLS -> FILTER ELEVATION DATA.
There are two different interfaces for filtering the elevations before the import (the
following description is valid for both interfaces):
1. FILTER AND IMPORT ELEVATION DATA for projects for which you want to import elevation spot
heights into the Geo-database and further process the data there (generate a DGM,
calculate embankments, define men height for a building from elevation points, …).
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Hint: If, during the filter process, you find out that the direct import is not suitable for the
amount of data, you can toggle to the import interface for preprocessing the data for the
calculation kernel, because the data are processed the same way.
2. PREPROCESSING ELEVATION DATA (Module Noise Mapping Toolbox) for projects with huge
amounts of data that are too big to be processed in the Geo-database, for example
elevation points for complete cities or districts. For these data normally a tile DGM is
calculated in the calculation kernel.
The import data can be in a single file or can be tiled, thus distributed over many
individual files.
Invoke FILE -> IMPORT -> FILTER AND IMPORT ELEVATION DATA for conventional projects.
Use the OPEN symbol to select the folder where the elevation data are stored.
By selecting one file with a double click, all files with the same extension will be sent to
the elevation filter.
On the left hand side the files are displayed as well as a preview of the first file. If needed,
select the first row for the import and the column numbers (position) for the coordinates
X and Y and the elevation Z.
You can select one or several areas and / or lines with a corridor width that are used to
filter and import the data according to your settings (see “Use areas and line corridors”,
page 24).
Before further tasks can be invoked the elevation tool needs to know the data structure.
Therefore as a first step only the option GET FILE INFORMATION is available in the selection
list.
In this step the elevation data are additionally stored binary (file extension *.elg for grid
data and *.elv for point clouds). The binary stored data are much faster accessible for the
next steps.
It is necessary for you to have write permission on the folder where the data are stored,
because SoundPLAN stores file information and interim results in this folder. Therefore
you enter a target folder for the scanned files in the SCAN OPTIONS, for example if the
elevation data have been delivered on a CD. If you don’t change the target folder, you can
select whether you want the original ASCII files to be deleted, moved to the subfolder
“OriginalData” or that the data should remain in the same folder as the binary files.
To scan the file information select the files with Ctrl+ A (if desired single files with shift or
the Ctrl key) and click on EXECUTE. SoundPLAN loads the files, extracts the structure and
stores them binary.
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Depending on the number and size of the files, this may take some time. This procedure
only needs to be done once; SoundPLAN remembers the structure and additional
information.
As soon as the FILE INFORMATION is filled in, the option in the selection list changes to “filter
elevations” and the filter options are displayed.
Filter elevations
For spot elevations positioned on a regular grid, the GRID DISTANCE is displayed. For
unstructured spot elevations a grid with a spacing of four times the average distance
between coordinates is assumed but this value can be modified at will. The finer the base
grid, the smaller the number of iterations needed to force a structure where all elevation
deviations of the remaining coordinates are below the set tolerance, yet for finer grids the
number of coordinates remaining will be higher, thus the results are not as efficient as
with a courser base grid.
Enter MAXIMUM HEIGHT DIFFERENCE TO ORIGINAL POINTS that shall not be exceeded.
MAXIMUM POINT DISTANCE:
It turned out that the maximal spacing between the coordinates
shall not be too big and that if the spacing was moderate, the number of iterations was
smaller. The filtering generated more equal sided triangles that were better suited for all
processing later on. If you do not like the results of the filtering, try again with reduced
maximum point distance. If a tile DGM should be calculated afterwards the maximum
point distance may not exceed 80 m,
After filtering the spot elevations according to your settings, a DGM is calculated from the
remaining spot elevations and compared with the original elevations. If spot elevations
are outside the tolerance, SoundPLAN will insert coordinates to force the DGM to conform
to the original data. This procedure is repeated iteratively until all differences are within
the tolerance.
In the logbook you can also view each iteration step.
If the elevation data are splitted into several files, test the filter options for a selected file,
see “Filter single elevation file” (page 23). Then select all files with Ctrl+ A and click
EXECUTE. Because it can be very time consuming if many files are processed, we
recommend using a lunch break or night time for filtering the data.
The filtered data are stored in tiles of 10 x 10 km in the subfolder “ResElev”. After all files
have been filtered, the option in the selection list changes to IMPORT ELEVATIONS. Click OK to
import the filtered elevations to the Geo-Database.
Filter single elevation file
In order for you to get a feeling for the settings and the resulting DGM, the statistics and
preview tab of the filter box shows the result of the elevation filtering for one selected file
with elevation data. (The tab disappears as soon as more than one file is selected.)
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You can view:
 the original data
 the remaining elevation points in the site map (result)
 the DGM as a 3D-model
 the difference grid map with the statistics
The difference to the original elevation points is an important criterion to prove the
quality of the result.
In the example above the elevation points have been filtered with a maximum deviation
of ± 0.25 m. The difference map proves that 80 % of the remaining points are within a
range of ± 0.13 m and that the maximum deviation is kept.
If you are not satisfied with the results, activate the first tab, change the filter parameters
and start the filter action again.
Use areas and line corridors
Reduce the area for the elevation data
Often you get data with a much bigger scope than you need. You can select an area to
only process the data within this area. Enter a general area in the Geo-Database that
generously covers the area for which you need elevation supplied and save the area in a
Geo-File of its own. Select the Geo-File in USE AREAS AND / OR LINE CORRIDORS and filter the
data as described above.
If the area has already been selected when scanning the file information, elevation data
that are outside the area are disregarded for further processing.
Unfiltered elevations within the circumference of buildings
If the elevation of the roofs of buildings is provided, the average height of the building can
be calculated most accurately with the Geotool EVALUATE POINTS FOR BUILDING HEIGHT when
you import the elevations within the circumference of buildings without filtering. For this
option enter a Geo-file or a Situation with the buildings under USE AREAS AND / OR LINE
CORRIDORS and select the task IMPORT ELEVATION POINTS.
As no elevation differences need to be filtered, the import is very fast.
Important: If the elevations of the roofs of buildings have been delivered in the same
folder as the terrain elevations - only with a different file extension, you must select a
different folder for the edge data in the step “get file information”.
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Unfiltered elevations within bands of roads and railways
When the terrain information within bands of roads and railways is very accurate, it can
be sensible to use unfiltered elevation information to set the elevation of the road and the
railway axis. For this purpose the unfiltered elevation information can be imported only in
the band around the road and railway master alignment. In order for the import to get the
geographical location of roads and railways, enter the Geo-file or Situation with the roads
or railways under USE AREAS AND / OR LINE CORRIDORS and select the corridor width I [m].
As no elevation differences need to be filtered, the import is very fast.
Generate a DGM from the unfiltered imported coordinates and place the road and railway
alignment with the COORDINATE OPERATIONS on top of this DGM. For railways the elevation
of the rail head must be adapted according to the used standard.
If additional files with the elevations on the bridge are available, the DGM is generated
from the elevations in road / railway bands and the elevations on bridges.
Extract areas from an overall pool of elevation data
You have for example received elevation data for a whole city, filtered the data and used it
perhaps for an action plan. Now you are asked to do detail investigations for single
hotspots. Enter the area(s) that generously cover the smaller investigation area(s) and
select them under USE AREAS AND / OR LINE CORRIDORS. In the project with the overall
elevation data select the filtered elevation points from the sub folder “ResElev” and select
the task IMPORT ELEVATION DATA.
Delete identical elevation points
If filtered elevation points imported from an external source contain double elevation
points, select the elevation points and invoke GEOTOOLS -> MORE ELEVATION TOOLS -> FILTER
ELEVATION DATA. Here you can select DELETE IDENTICAL POINTS from the selection list. If double
points have different elevations, the point with the higher elevation is deleted.
Hint: Deactivate ALLOW COLLECTION in the object property settings (right mouse click on the
symbol spot height), if you get the message “not enough points for filtering.
Transform coordinates
The task transform coordinates transforms the elevations from the source coordinate
system to the project coordinate system, see paragraph “coordinate transformation” in
the manual, chapter Geo-Database.
Preprocess elevation data for the calculation kernel
[Module Noise Mapping Toolbox] If you need to filter elevation points for very big areas,
the amount of data is too big to open these elevation points as a Geo-File in the GeoDatabase. Therefore there is a separate import interface in the Geo-Database for
preprocessing these data under FILE -> IMPORT -> PREPROCESSING ELEVATION DATA.
The data are filtered the same way as described in the chapter Geo-Database, section
filter and import elevation data (page 21).
Move files outside of areas / corridors to a sub-folder
With this task you can move all elevation files located outside of selected areas or line
corridors to a sub-folder. Entire files will be moved, not only the part that is located within
the selected area. The sub-folder is generated in the normal project folder.
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Filter points in outlying areas with increased tolerance
Often the area of a community consists of areas with buildings and outlying areas with
fields, forests and meadows. As in the non-built up areas the accuracy is not quite as
important as between buildings, a bigger tolerance can be chosen here.
As soon as you select this task, a dialog opens to select the Geo-File. Select the Geofile
with the area(s) and/or lines (e.g. roads / railways) outside of which the coarser filter
value shall be used. The line corridor width is only valid for line type objects. Determine
the FACTOR FOR COARSER FILTER VALUE in the elevation filter.
Clip elevations at areas (e.g. buildings/roads)
This task provides elevations within areas or line corridors without filtering them. It can be
helpful for example to use elevations of the roofs of buildings for the building height or
elevations in road bands to determine the road elevation with a separate DGM.
The amount of data of these elevations is of then not too big, so that you could store them
with the task SAVE ELEVATION DATA AS directly to a Geo-File.
Save elevations to
The filtered elevations are in most cases saved to the sub-folder ElevData. The files in this
sub-folder are directly assigned for the tile DGM calculation in the calculation kernel, if
needed together with additional elevation points or elevation lines in the project. The
elevation data are always stored in tiles of 10 x 10 km.
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In addition you can save the data as Geo-Files which are not automatically loaded to the
Geo-Database.
The filtered data can also be stored as ASCII files, for example to use them in another
system.
Combine elevation data from different sources
It might happen, that you get elevation data from different sources in different accuracy
for one project. In this case you determine when storing the data what should happen in
overlapping areas.
You can either update the data completely (DELETE EXISTING FILES), delete existing data in
overlapping areas (REPLACE EXISTING ELEVATIONS IN OVERLAPPING AREAS) before new (more
accurate) data are imported or ignore the new data in overlapping areas if the existing
elevation data are better (IMPORT ELEVATIONS ONLY OUTSIDE OF OVERLAPPING AREAS).
Save file frames to a Geo-File
With this task the frames of all elevation files are stored as general areas in a Geo-File. In
addition the file name is written in the center of the area as a GeoText. This is very helpful,
if you want to get an overview of the scope of the delivered elevation data.
Overview of short cut keys in the Geo-Database
View: 3D-wire frame model
F10
View: 3D-solid model
Ctrl+F10
View: Current Geo file
F5
View: Current object type
F6
View: Front view
F8
View: Top view
F7
View: Only marked objects
F3
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View: Side view
F9
View: All objects
Depending of prior selection or again
with, F3, F5 or F6
Edit: Mark all
Ctrl+A
Edit: Refresh view
Ctrl +R
Edit: Attribute explorer
Ctrl +E
Edit: Insert
Ctrl +V
Edit: Toggle extended view (object dots, settings …)
F4
Edit: Change assignment to Geo file
Ctrl +G
Edit: Copy
Ctrl +C
Edit: Delete
Delete
Edit: Un-select
Ctrl +Q
Edit: Select with attributes
Ctrl +F
Edit: Close object
F2 (or double click)
Edit: Convert object type
Ctrl +U
Edit: Undo (Caution, not all actions can be un-done)
Ctrl +Z
Insert a free point on a line or an area
Digitizing mode (F12),
Shift+ Ctrl + R. mouse button
File: Open Situation
Ctrl +O
File: Save Situation
Ctrl +S
Geo tools: Filter
Shift +Ctrl +F
Geo tools: Interpolate elevations
Ctrl +H
Geo tools: Divide lines into segments
Shift + Ctrl +L
Geo tools: Connect lines
Shift + Ctrl +V
Geo tools: Adjust road /Railway course
Shift + Ctrl +S
Geo tools: Concatenate areas
Shift +W
Geo tools: Clean up wall ledges
Shift +M
Geo tools: Clean up overlapping areas
Shift +U
Fundamentals: Calculate the DGM
Ctrl+D
Tools: Toggle right angle mode on /off
F11
Tools: Toggle between Edit and Digitizing mode
F12
Additional: Abort screen refresh
Esc
Additional: Rotate
Page up / down
Additional: Zoom
Arrow keys left / right
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Implemented Standards and Guidelines
Not all standards and guidelines come with sample and test cases. We consider a standard
tested when official test examples are fulfilled or main portions of the standard have been
calculated by hand or in an Excel spreadsheet. As custom made test question cause an
enormous amount of work, they have not been carried out for all standards in the same
depth. All existing test questions are run for each new revision of the software to check
for changes in the results.
Road
 RLS-90 (D), the test cases are fulfilled
 DIN 18005 (D) road tested
 VBUS (D), tested
 RVS 3.02 / 4.02 (A), the test cases are fulfilled additional subjects are also tested
 NMPB 96 (F/EU) tested with the examples contained in the standard
 NMPB Routes 2008 - French road, tested with the examples contained in the standard
 EMPA StL 86, StL 95, StL 97 (CH), tested
 CoRTN (GB), tested
 Source model for the Hungarian road
 Russian road
 FHWA (USA) 1978 tested in accordance to the samples in the standard
 Traffic Noise Model - FHWA 1998 (USA)
 Statens planverk report no. 48 (DK), 1980 tested
 Nordic Traffic Noise Prediction 1996 tested
 Nord2000 road, tests not finished
 ASJ RTN Model B 1998 (Japan) quality assurance done by Japanese trading partner
 ASJ RTN Model B 2003 (Japan) quality assurance done by Japanese trading partner
 ASJ-RTN-2008 ( Japan), quality assurance done by Japanese trading partner
 HJ2.4-2009 Road - Chinese road
Railway
 Schall 03 (D), the test cases are fulfilled and are present on the installation CD.
 Schall 03-2006 (D), no test questions exist yet so changes may be possible. (not
recommended for consulting purposes)
 Transrapid (D), the test questions are fulfilled
 DIN 18005 (D) with source calculation rail, tested
 VBUSch (D), tested
 ONR 305011(A), tested
 Calculation of Rail Noise CRN 99 (GB), tested
 RMR 2002 (NL/EU), no official test questions exist, in direct comparison to other
software manufacturers differences have been found
 SEMIBEL (CH), tested
 Nordic Prediction Method for Train Noise NMT 98 (Scandinavia), tested
 Nordic Rail Prediction Method Kilde Report 130 (Scandinavia), tested
 Nord2000 rail, tests not finished
 Japan Narrow Gauge Railways (Japan), quality assurance done by Japanese trading
partner
 Source calculation for Hungarian railways
 Russian rail
 NFS 31-133 – French railway
 FRA-HSGT 2005 – American rail
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Industry
 DIN ISO 9613-2, tested
 DIN 18005 industry (D), tested
 VDI 2714/2720, tested
 TA Lärm simplified procedure, tested
 ÖAL-28 (A) or General Prediction Method for Industrial Plants (DK) was tested on the
basis of the quality assurance on the basis of the test cases from version 4.2. For ÖAL
28 with rubber band screening the test cases were adjusted
 Nord2000 industry (Scandinavia), tests not completed
 Construction Noise (Hong Kong), tested
 BS5228 (GB) was verified against hand calculations, no official test questions exist
 ASJ CN Model 2002 (Japan), quality control by the Japanese trading partner
 Concawe (NL) was verified against hand calculations, no official test questions exist
 VDI 3760 (D), tested
 ASJ-CN-2007 (Japan), quality control by the Japanese trading partner
 HJ2.4-2009 (China)
Aircraft noise
The SoundPLAN aircraft noise model in accordance to the AzD/AzB 2008 was tested in
depth by the German Umweltbundesamt (Environmental Protection Agency of Germany).
The tests were carried out on the basis of the guideline conformity tests (November 2008
/ January 2009) and the amendments that subsequently were made for these tests. The
Umweltbundesamt (UBA) confirmed that SoundPLAN complies with the demands of the
UBA for software calculating the noise zones around airports in accordance to the
AzD/AzB from 10.10.2012
 AzB
 AzD/AzB 2008
 ECAC Doc 29 (incl. EU interim)
 DIN 45643
 DIN 45684
 ÖAL 24
 SANCTE
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