GEMINUS - Galileo European Multimodal Integrated Navigation User Service - Galileo Service Definition
Overview
Background & policy context:
Galileo is being designed to be a global civil satellite-based navigation system under European civil control. It is to be independent from, but compatible with, existing satellite systems (GPS and GLONASS). It will provide a number of services to users (e.g. aviation, land and maritime) equipped with Galileo receivers by means of the Galileo Signal in Space (SIS).
The Galileo European Multimodal Integrated Navigation User Service (GEMINUS) study is defining the navigation and navigation-related communications services provided by Galileo, and will therefore be the primary work from which the Galileo Architecture (GALA) definition activities will flow.
The Operator’s Requirement workpackage, as an integral part of the GEMINUS study, describes the GVC internal organisation that is derived from Business models, Market Sizing and Market Requirement Analysis. The GVC defined in this report should be the company created to operate the Galileo services from the inception of the Galileo programme. It is anticipated that this Operator’s Requirement work will also assist the EC in its decision to allow the continued development of the Galileo programme.
Objectives:
Internal environment, which describes the activities, the assets and the legal organisation of the GVC
- Infrastructure Requirement, which defines the internal operational organisation of the company and estimates its running costs.
- PPP environment which will propose a financial scheme of the GVC involving both private and public partners
- Business of EGNOS transition, which will propose a business scenario to integrate EGNOS into Galileo.
Methodology:
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The aims of GEMINUS were therefore to:
To define the Galileo Service. - To define the business structure for the Galileo Operator which meets the requirements of both the EC and the Provider Consortium.
- To validate the study with Case Studies which will examine many levels of the service provision value chain. 1.2.3 As a consequence GEMINUS has:
- developed an understanding of user requirements through validation of the GALA WP1 work
- obtained a view on market size and willingness to pay in those markets
- defined a set of services which are as close as technically possible to the user requirement
- determined the levels of revenue possible from the proposed services
- developed legal views on the feasibility of certain differentiators (e.g. service guarantees/liability) and the optimal structure of the Galileo Vehicle Company (GVC) to make it attractive to private investors and their backers
- determined the mission of the GVC
- conducted a risk and financial analysis of the GVC ventur
- proposed a potential PPP approach
- confirmed the revenue prospects for the GVC through a number of case studies
- confirmed that the GEMINUS view of the commercial opportunities for Galileo are not in conflict with views expressed in other studies and are not affected by any significant omissions.
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