Kategorie: ‘Urban noise’

Einladung zur Abschlussveranstaltung des BaLSaM-Projekts am 21.1.2026

09. Januar 2026 | von Heck, Jonas Tobias

Das Projekt “Braunkohlereviere als attraktive Lebensräume durch Straßengeräuschsimulation auf Basis bestehender Verkehrsdaten zur Minimierung von Lärm” (BaLSaM) lädt Interessierte zur öffentlichen Abschlussveranstaltung ein. Sie wird am 21.1.2026 von 8:30-11:30 Uhr im Institut für Hörtechnik und Akustik (IHTA) der RWTH Aachen University stattfinden (Adresse: Kopernikusstraße 5, 52074 Aachen, Deutschland).

Im Rahmen des BaLSaM-Projekts wurde die Modellierung der Schallausbreitung von Verkehrslärm in urbanen Umgebungen sowie deren Auswirkung auf die menschliche Wahrnehmung untersucht. Das BaLSAM-Konsortium setzt sich zusammen aus dem Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge (IKA) und dem Institut für Hörtechnik und Akustik (IHTA) der RWTH Aachen University sowie RHA REICHER HAASE ASSOZIIERTE GmbH und HEAD acoustics GmbH. Gefördert wird das Projekt von dem Bundesministerium für Verkehr im Rahmen der mFUND-Initiative.

Während der Abschlussveranstaltung werden die Projektpartner die Ergebnisse des Projekts zu präsentieren. Darüber hinaus wird das Event die Gelegenheit bieten, Erfahrungen auszutauschen und gemeinsam über zukünftige Fragestellungen zu diskutieren. Neben der Teilnahme vor Ort ist auch eine digitale Teilnahme an der Veranstaltung möglich.

Agenda:

08:30	Anreise
09:00	Begrüßung
09:15	Vorstellung des Projektes
09:30	Vorstellung der Ergebnisse aus den Arbeitspaketen
11:00	Diskussion mit dem Teilnehmerkreis
11:15	Beginn der Demo & Ausklang des öffentlichen Teils
Im Anschluss: Projekt-interner Abschluss (nicht öffentlich)

— English version —

The BaLSaM project invites interested parties to the public closing event. It will take place on January 21, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics (IHTA) at RWTH Aachen University (address: Kopernikusstraße 5, 52074 Aachen, Germany).

The BaLSaM project investigated the modeling of traffic noise propagation in urban environments and its impact on human perception. The BaLSAM consortium consists of the Institute for Automotive Engineering (IKA) and the Institute for Hearing Technology and Acoustics (IHTA) at RWTH Aachen University, as well as RHA REICHER HAASE ASSOZIIERTE GmbH and HEAD acoustics GmbH. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Transport as part of the mFUND initiative.

During the closing event, the project partners will present the results of the project. In addition, the event will provide the opportunity to exchange experiences and discuss future topics. In addition to attending in person, digital participation in the event is also possible.

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Anmeldung / Registration:

https://www.balsam-projekt.de/de/abschlussveranstaltung.html

Digitale Teilnahme per Teams / Online participation via Teams:

Jetzt an der Besprechung teilnehmen

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Kategorie: Events, IHTA, Urban noise, Virtual Reality
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Aachen Acoustics Colloquium 2024

27. November 2024 | von Aspöck, Lukas

Currently the 15^th Aachen Acoustics Colloquium is taking place at Parkhotel Quellenhof in Aachen. This year’s scientific program includes 26 interesting contributions (2 Keynotes, 18 presentations and 6 poster presentations) about current research within the area of automotive acoustics, accompanied by a technical exhibition from various companies and research institutes. A detailed overview of the program can be found in this PDF.

Our institute is part of the organizing team of this event, which is attended by around 190 persons (~170 in-person and 22 online). On Tuesday morning, Michael Vorländer chaired the session „Infotainment in the vehicle“ including a very interesting keynote presentation by Hermann Ney on the current progress in speech and language technology. In the following session about numerical methods and simulations, our research assistant Christian Dreier held a presentation titled „Speed-dependent directivity patterns of road traffic sound sources“.

Additionally at the exhibition, our Institute presented current progress of research projects, e.g., the BalSaM project, in form of interactive demonstrations.

: Hosting team of the AAC: Lutz Eckstein (ika), Klaus Genuit (HEAD acoustics), Michael Vorländer (IHTA) and Stefan Pischinger (fev). Photo: Stefan Hense.

: Christian Dreier during his presentation. Photo: Stefan Hense.

Kategorie: Conferences, Current research, Events, GfTA e.V., IHTA, Research, Urban noise
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Inter-Noise 2024 in Nantes

10. September 2024 | von Aspöck, Lukas

This year’s Inter-noise conference took place from August 25^th to 29^th in Nantes, France. More than 1500 delegates participated in this conference and presented interesting research in the field of acoustics and noise. Highlights of the conference included a plenary talk by Arnaud Can and Pierre Aumond (Joint Research Unit in Environmental Acoustics at Gustave Eiffel University, Nantes, France) on advanced characterization of urban sound environments and a keynote lecture about the child perspective on noise exposure and health effects, held by Kerstin Persson Waye from Gothenburg University, Sweden, who is also collaborating with IHTA in the Equal-Life project.

Members of IHTA travelled to the conference and presented the following research papers:

Chalotorn Möhlmann: Validation measurement of vehicle pass-by models for dynamic urban environments (results of the BaLSaM project)
Marco Berzborn: Inference of the acoustic properties of transversely isotropic porous materials
Lara Stürenburg: Loudness and preference judgments for noises of a heat pump (results of the LowNoise project)
Joao Fatela (Guest researcher from the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy):
An experimental setup to investigate relevant validation parameters for the auralization of commercial aircraft flyovers in complex urban contexts

Directly after the closing ceremony of the conference, the satellite workshop “Unlocking the Potential of Open Research Software in Acoustics at Inter-Noise 2024” started. This event was organized by Maarten Hornikx and Huiqing Wang, from the Building Acoustics team of Eindhoven University of Technology, and included interesting exchanges and presentation on the development, maintenance, documentation and distrubtion of acoustics-related open-source software. As one of four invited speakers, Lukas Aspöck held a presentation about IHTA’s auralization software Virtual Acoustics. The slides of this presentation are available for download (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Next to insightful overview presentations by Maarten Hornikx and Huiqing Wang, further successful research software was presented: Pyroomacoustics by Eric Bezzam, NoiseModelling by Pierre Aumond and SoundScapy by Andrew Mitchell, along with many examples of challanges and best practices for open research and open-source software development. Many thanks to Maarten and his team for the invitation and the organization of this exciting event.