Processes of creation and exploitation of strategic acoustic maps of urban areas

Author of this paper leads the research project, focussed on developing the technology of creating and exploiting acoustic maps of towns in the form of autonomous layers of GIS systems. The project is realized by the consortium of four R&D units and financially supported both by the state and local budgets of selected Polish cities which cooperates with the research consortium. Current cooperation of the consortium with local authorities is a key element of the project. It was initially assumed and proved in the run of the project that the efficiency as well as effectiveness of the developed technology should be based on "synchronized" solving of many acoustical and non-acoustical problems. Therefore the special attention is paid in the project on problems of collecting and processing data in the GIS systems which forms the base of acoustic calculations. The needs of educating these members of municipal staff who will be responsible on preparation and then exploitation of acoustic maps are also treated as a problem of essential importance. The paper shows briefly a current progress of the project and introduce some formal concepts of management of it. In order to clarify links between various elements of the project and to manage it effectively selected tools of structured analysis are applied. The methodology of analysing noise-mapping processes enables the author of this paper to identify particular roles of all participants involved in these processes.