Talks
Transportation Noise Assessment in Vancouver (0900-0930)
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Prof. Davies, PhD, CIH is an Associate Professor of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of British Columbia. Prof. Davies’ research examines chemical and physical hazards in the workplace and in the community, and their effects on human health. He has researched the role of noise on human health for over 20 years, including the first “noise map” of a major Canadian City, and numerous papers examining the role of both occupational and transportation noise on the health of children and adults.
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Translink Skytrain Noise Report (0930-0950)
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Dr. Briony Croft is a consultant at SLR, specializing in rail acoustics with over fifteen years of engineering experience in the UK, Australia and now in Canada. Her doctorate was awarded for research into rail roughness and corrugation, a fundamental source of railway noise.
Skytrain Noise Study
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Transportation Noise Health Impacts (0950-1030)
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Mathias Basner, MD, PhD, MSc is Associate Professor of Sleep and Chronobiology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. He is currently President of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Noise (ICBEN). His primary research interests concern the effects of sleep loss on behavior and cognition, population studies on sleep time and waking activities, the effects of traffic noise on sleep and recuperation, and the effects of long-duration space missions on behavior and cognition.
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Policy and Tools for Mitigating Ambient Noise (1050-1130)
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Dr. Eoin King is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Hartford, CT, USA. He sits on the Board of the Institute of Nosie Control Engineering (USA) and is a member of both the European Commission Noise Expert Group and the International WELL Building Institute’s Sound Concept Advisory Panel. Following postdoctoral research on noise assessment and control, he established a start-up noise and vibration consulting company before moving to the only US university that offers specialist undergraduate programs in acoustics and music.
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Mitigation Examples from Other Urban Centres (1300-1340)
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Joseph Digerness is an acoustic engineer at Arup, where he has worked among a global team of sound and vibration experts for a dozen years on projects ranging from major rail and road infrastructure to sound art. Currently based in New York, he has previously worked in San Francisco, Singapore and most recently Melbourne.
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Group Discussion Reports 1130-1215
What are Vancouver’s (regional) problems?
What are we doing well?
What are we doing poorly?
Information gaps
Group Discussion Reports 1340-1440
What mitigation methods are appropriate for metro Van?
Recommendations on next steps, policy, strategies, and tonal adjustments (KT)
