The environmental impact model

Visum provides three models within the environmental impact model, to calculate the environmental impacts which are noise and pollution emissions, caused by motorized private transport (Environmental impact model and HBEFA).

  • Noise-Emis-RLS-90: Calculation of noise emission levels in accordance with the guideline on noise reduction for roads, edition 1990 (RLS-90), without considering immission parameters.
  • Noise-Emis-Nordic: Calculation of noise emission levels in accordance with Nordic Council of Ministers (1996).
  • Pollution-Emis: Calculation of air pollution emissions in accordance with emission factors of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (BAFU).