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The story's noise map of Berlin: road and rail noise in yellow, orange and red, trains and road traffic as moving dots, and a plane climbing out of BER with its noise trailing behind it
Unequal World · Data Story

The Loudest Wall

Berlin and Frankfurt, Germany
The Loudest Wall
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Noise maps, planning areas, environmental justice and social status: Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung, Bauen und Wohnen Berlin, Umweltatlas (Strategische Lärmkarten 2017 and 2022, Umweltgerechtigkeit 2023/2024, Monitoring Soziale Stadtentwicklung 2023), dl-de/zero-2.0 · Europe: European Environment Agency, noise data reported under the Environmental Noise Directive, CC BY 4.0 · Federal rail noise: © Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, Umgebungslärmkartierung Runde 4, dl-de/by-2-0 · Timetables: VBB Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH, CC BY 4.0; long-distance trains gtfs.de / DELFI e.V., CC BY 4.0 · Frankfurt: Hessisches Landesamt für Naturschutz, Umwelt und Geologie (HLNUG); aircraft layers CC BY 4.0; monitors © Fraport AG; airport noise protection zones from the Hessian ordinance of 30 September 2011 · Environmental Burden: Unequal World · Imagery and place names: Esri