The ROZVOZ research project by the Transport Research Centre has received an "Excellent" award from the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic. The award recognized the project’s unique data, its practical benefits for land-use planning and public health, and its new methodology for evaluating road noise.
The Transport Research Centre is proud to announce that the ROZVOZ research project—Regional Development Using Low-Noise Pavements (No. TL02000258)—received an “Excellent” rating from the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) following its completion.
This prestigious award confirms the project’s top-notch quality, its practical contribution to land-use planning, and its significance for transportation and public health. “Not only road administrators (e.g., the Road and Motorway Directorate, the Road Construction Association) appreciate the practical use of tables with average noise levels for various types of road surfaces. These tables show how noise levels change depending on the age of the surface and compare them with reference values. The data was obtained from several thousand unique measurements taken by 2022 directly on roads in the Czech Republic using the CPX method. The results are then presented in the current edition of TKP 7 in Appendix 7.P6.” adds the project’s principal investigator, Vítězslav Křivánek
The project, which ran from 2019 to 2022 in collaboration with the National Reference Laboratory for Municipal Noise, aimed to determine changes in road noise levels and thereby support effective decision-making processes. A significant output is the certified methodology “Long-term Impacts of Noise Changes in Low-Noise Pavements for Land-Use Planning”, which enables the economic evaluation of the noise impacts of road surfaces and is freely available in our e-shop.
What TAČR Recognized
According to the final evaluation, the project maintained a very high standard of quality throughout its duration. The review committee particularly highlighted:The unique comprehensiveness of the collected data and its entirely novel applicationThe identification of a fundamental relationship between road surface type and its ageThe creation of technical documentation for assessing the economic efficiency of various types of wearing courses – not only financial costs were taken into account, but also social costs related to noise and its impact on quality of life, health, and the value of public spaceThe very high professional standard of the project and the quality of the main results
The review committee rated the project as excellent due to its significant application potential and exceptional contribution to the practical use of the results.
What’s next?
Thanks to the excellent results, a follow-up project focused on updating the methodology for assessing noise externalities has been approved and will run from 2025 to 2027.
Further information about the project can be found on the Starfos website.
