Project ROSANNE: Rolling resistance, Skid resistance, and Noise Emission measurement standards for road surfaces

ROSANNE is a collaborative project in the Seventh EU Framework Programme which aims at developing/harmonising measurement methods for skid resistance, noise emission and rolling resistance of road pavements as a preparation for standardization. To achieve this, the project will follow the recommendations of key predecessor projects as well as consider ongoing work in CEN and ISO. The project will develop and improve standards in the field of working group CEN/TC 227/WG 5. For the pavement influence on road traffic noise emission the main objective is to consider the existing measurement methods of SPB (ISO 11819-1) (1) and CPX (ISO/DIS 11819-2) (2) to provide a stable and reliable harmonised method for pavement noise emission properties. The project will validate these methods and a combination of them, incorporate correction mechanisms for temperature influence and investigate its potential use for noise immission calculation methods like the one proposed by the CNOSSOS-EU project (3). It will also explore the potential for recent developments in the measurement of surface texture to deliver parameters that better reflect the physical process of tyre/road interaction and that may improve our understanding of how the texture influences noise emission. The present paper summarizes the project status after the first nine project months.