M. Jäcker-Cüppers was up to 2009 scientific employees in the Federal Office for Environment, Dessau, last as a director/conductor in the field “Noise Reduction in Traffic”.
Since winter 2001/02 he has a teaching assignment for the lecture “Noise Protection in Urban Planning” at the TUB-ISTA. The lecture is part of the module TA3, together with the both subjects Psychoacoustic and Noise Impact Assessment.
The lecture is suited for students of city and regional planning, architecture, traffic engineering, acoustics, environmental protection, building engineering etc.
After an introduction to the acoustic bases, strategies, instruments and measures for the reduction of the noise are described. Emphasis is thereby the traffic as the most important source of noise.