The article presents a new approach to the tasks of noise assessment and reduction in the urbanized environment endangered by road noise sources. It was proposed to include the acoustic quality model in the currently applied quantitative noise assessment in the management of urbanized environment. In particular, this model takes into account subjective features of sound quality, i.e.: loudness, sharpness, roughness, and fluctuation strength as well as noise annoyance assessment obtained in laboratory conditions. The proposed way can be used in estimating investment costs of an acoustic barrier at the design stage.Keywords: acoustic barrier, acoustic quality, noise management, noise reduction, urban areas * The paper is the result of statutory research carried out at the Institute of Production Engineering at the Faculty of Organization and Management of the Silesian University of Technology as part of a project number 13/030/BK_18/0039 called "Development of intelligent production methods as well as work and life environments in the context of production engineering challenges".