Future applications in satellites navigation for road telematics and for road management system. (VSS2003/903)
Overview
Background & policy context:
Europe showed clearly its intention to assure its autonomy in satellite navigation. This key domain of the European strategy for the space has an impact on the policy of transport. The approval given to the project GALILEO of satellite navigation opens numerous perspectives in the development of location based services. The road telematics is one of the sectors privileged by such an initiative (eg control and tracking of vehicles, route guidance and planning of routes).
Switzerland also participates in the European projects of satellite navigation through the European Space Agency and thanks to the bilateral agreements (6th frame program of research). The transport policy in Switzerland aims at a harmonization with the one introduced in Europe. Eventually Switzerland will have to integrate the services that will be proposed jointly with satellite navigation.
GPS was designed thirty years ago, it is now on the way to a modernization. The civil users of GPS will benefit from two new frequencies, of which L5 for critical and safety applications.
The development of the Swiss road telematics will also have to focus on the development of the projects GALILEO, EGNOS and GPS.
Objectives:
The purpose of this project is to study the potential of the methods of satellites positioning and their future related services. Road telematics and the system of information for road management are domains with high potential for these navigation services.
The project has to cover the following objectives:
- To study the user's needs of the road in positioning
- To study the characteristics and the orientations of the navigation satellites systems (EGNOS, GALILEO, GPS) in the context of road applications and transportation.
- To put in evidence GALILEO's contributions with regard to the American GPS and estimate the complementarity of both systems.
- To study the services provided by the navigation satellites systems in order to develop road telematics in Switzerland and in the context of the information system for the road management.
- To estimate the perspectives of the integration of the services of navigation for certain practical examples (management of traffic, services of urgency, intermodal services and combination with a GIS, hazardous goods monitoring)
- To write a recommendation for the users and the research in road telematics
Methodology:
The methodological approach of this research will be based on:
- The study of technical and policy papers on navigation systems
- Information of these technologies to potential users of the administrations and the private sector
- The establishment of surveys to assess needs
- Drafting a summary report
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