Unlocking the potential of Galileo and EGNOS

The availability of EGNOS and the introduction of GALILEO as an improved Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) are important opportunities for business and social improvement for Europe.

Intelligent Transport Systems and Services (ITS) represent a considerable market for GNSS-enabled services. In this context, it is crucial to work towards the technical conditions that reflect  business needs and enable an open and competitive mass market for providers that offer different services, facilitated by GALILEO and EGNOS.

The GSC project goes beyond demonstrating the technical feasibility of the multiple services platform into an analysis and recommendations with respect to the feasibility of market deployment through identifying how standardisation and certification mechanisms can provide the basis for the trust-relationship between different business entities in a horizontal mass market.

In order to deploy multiple services onto the single platform it is very important to understand which “service primitives” are available such as positioning, communication etc. Furthermore, it needs to be clear what the different service primitives cover. In GSC a specific focus has been given to positioning to better understand how EGNOS can enhance the performance in this regard.

Objectives

The GSC project specifically aims at demonstrating that GNSS, in particular EGNOS and GALILEO, can play a role as enablers of this market.

The GSC project objectives are driven by the following high-level strategy toward exploiting the potential of GNSS for mass applications for the road sector:

• Identify the key differentiators of GALILEO/EGNOS for a number of critical potential mass market applications, including the interoperable road charging applications, and develop, demonstrate and validate how these differentiators could become enablers for industrialised mass market implementations.

• Identify how standardisation and certification mechanisms can provide the basis for the trust-relationship between different business entities in a horizontal mass market. The project will demonstrate and validate how such a standardised open GNSS-enabled platform can be operated by service aggregators and can run 3rd party services in combination with mission critical services such as road charging.

Duration and Funding

March 2009 – June 2011
Funding through the Galileo Supervisory Authority, 7th Framework Programme

Consortium

Coordinator: ERTICO - ITS Europe

Partners: Vlaamse Overheid – Departement Mobiliteit en Openbare Werken (Dept MOW), Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V., International Road Transport Union, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Sulle Tecnologie dell’ Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni, Kapsch TrafficCom AG, Oracle Belgium, Swedish Road Administration, Technolution B.V., SWECO VBB AB, Volvo Technology AB

Project News: GSC