GADEROS - Galileo Demonstrator for Railway Operation System
Overview
Background & policy context:
GADEROS is a pilot project under the Growth thematic programme of the 5th Research Framework Programme of the European Union. Together with the Galilei study, it forms part of on-going research work for the Galileo programme. It is managed by the EU Directorate General for Energy and Transport. GADEROS will demonstrate the use of GNSS safety-oflife features for defining a satellite-based system to perform train location for safe railway applications that will be integrated into the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) / European Train Kontrol System (ETCS). The system will offer another
technological approach for train location, mainly for conventional and low-density traffic lines.
Objectives:
The scientific and technological objectives of GADEROS
are:
- proof of feasibility of integration of a GNSS locator for interoperability with the ETCS On-Board
- development of a Common Test Bed
- proof of feasibility of the application of a GNSS locator to support a Traffic Monitoring Centre.
Methodology:
The final outcome of this project will be the definition of unified test scenarios and
development of a common test facilities for the execution of common trials for the evaluation
of safe location principles of different devices satellite-based in a common controlled
environment. The project will also define a common functional requirement specification to
ntegrate the proposed GNSS subsystem into the ERTMS architecture A set of functional tests on at least one prototype that can be provided by different suppliers will also be executed depending on the devices availability and budget limit.
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