Towards development of sustainable cities: influence of traffic induced vibrations on buildings and humans

One of the main environmental pollutions today is traffic induced vibrations, which is being considered as a nuisance in the big cities. There are a lot of investigations of the influence of traffic induced vibrations on the living enviroments in Europe. The consideration of traffic-induced vibrations became more and more important in designing and planning traffic systems. The standardization authorities throughout Europe have defined guidelines on allowable ground vibration levels to buildings, and acceptable human exposure to vibrations in buildings. There is a lack of investigation in this field in Serbia, and no standards or guidelines on allowable ground vibration levels. The main goals of this project are to fullfill this gap: to contribute to the understanding of the generating mechanism of vibrations, the travelling waves transmission path through the ground and the structure, the effects on buildings and human health, as well as the countermeasures against this problem: the reduction of vibration sources, the attenuation and cutting of vibration transmission paths in ground soil and the isolation of buildings. There are three directions of investigation: theoretical, numerical and experimental The objectives are: data base for existing measurements in Belgrade, prediction model for evaluation of vibration, a technical basis for the preparation of vibration norms and software for numerical analysis of traffic induced vibrations in buildings