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Rail noise abatement is making progress
By the end of 2017, around 1,700 kms of track with noise abatement and 40,000 freight cars upgraded
Noise abatement track in kms
1,700 km
Schallschutz- wände
2017 2020 Upgraded DB freight cars:
Focal points for noise abatement
Feasibility studies for additional measures in noise pollution focal points
2,000 km
Hamburg
Bremen
Hannover
Berlin
Leipzig
Dresden
40,000
2017
64,000
~50,000
Dusseldorf
Mannheim
Frankfurt/Main
Nuremberg
2018 2020
Status at end of April 2018
44,000 freight cars with whispering brake shoes
Stuttgart
Munich
© Deutsche Bahn AG
Source: DB Noise Report 2017
Salzburg
Basel
UP TO NOW THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND DB HAVE INVESTED 1.4BN EUROS IN UPGRADING EXISTING TRACK. BY 2020, SEVERAL HUNDRED MILLION MORE EUROS WILL HAVE BEEN SPENT ON RE-EQUIPPING, UPGRADING TRACK AND ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ALLEVIATE NOISE POLLUTION FOCAL POINTS IN THREE VALLEYS: THE MID-RHINE, UPPER ELBE AND INN
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