Posts Tagged ‘paris’
Interactive map of Paris road noise
The Map of Road Noise in Paris is an Esri map of 2015 road noise levels in the French capital. The map includes four different map layers visualizing road noise levels during a 24 hour period, the noise level at night (22h-6h), all roads exceeding 68 dB in 24 hours and all roads exceeding an […]
European City Ranking | Best practices for clean air
featured / policies / public transport / transport planning / urban planning
February 24, 2015
A wide range of measures can be taken to improve air quality. We have selected nine categories of measures based on their potential to reduce particulate matter (PM10), which is a pollutant regulated under EU law, meaning that its concentrations are closely monitored and that the commitment to reduce these is a major motivation behind […]
France: 3cm more than standard trains
France faces rail chaos after 2000 new trains are built 3cm TOO WIDE fro station platform. The French train operator SNCF has discovered that 2,000 new trains it ordered at a cost of 15bn euros ($20.5bn; £12.1bn) are too wide for many regional platforms. This embarrassing blunder has so far cost the rail operator over […]
Il Boulevard Périphérique di Parigi compie 40 anni
Quella parigina è l’autostrada urbana più frequentata d’Europa. Quando fu completata, nel ’73, era un monumento. Oggi una condanna quotidiana per migliaia di persone. http://lastampa.it/2013/04/27/esteri/la-peripherique-compie-anni-tra-mito-inquinamento-e-rumore-S6JMIi25Y2QVnbA4HxgbOJ/pagina.html http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2013/04/25/a-40-ans-peripherique-parisien-beaux-jours-devant-lui_n_3152309.html
Presto 30 km orari su un terzo della rete stradale di Parigi
Parigi fa sul serio: Dalle 70 zone con limite di velocità di 30 km / h si arriverà a 100 entro la fine del mese di giugno! Un terzo della rete stradale di Parigi sarà allora decelerato. Lo ha annunciato lo scorso Lunedì, l’amministrazione della città sottolineando la sua determinazione nel voler respingere il predominio […]