Transport is essential to modern civilisation. Yet modern society has realised that the world’s continuing and growing demand for mobility cannot be met by simply expanding today’s means of transport. Indeed, transport systems are major contributors to congestion, death and injuries from accidents, climate change, and resource exhaustion, public health problems due to air pollution and noise and deterioration of ecosystems.
Space-based systems, notably the use of global navigation satellite systems and satellite telecommunications, may increasingly help meeting mobility challenges based on innovative services. The ability to accurately determine and communicate one’s position at any moment thanks to GNSS is starting to have a major impact on the management of ship and lorry fleets, road and rail traffic monitoring, the mobilisation of emergency services, the tracking of goods carried by multimodal transport and air traffic control. For more information please also visit our Showcases on Aviation and Railways.

Integrated Traffic Management and Air Quality Control Using Space Services (iTRAQ)

iTRAQ is a project to develop a dynamic traffic management system for optimising use of the road network whilst meeting growing demands to sustain high standards of air quality in urban environments.

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Intelligent Railways via Integrated Satellite Services (IRISS)

The IRISS feasibility project will identify the applications and requirements for an integrated information, communication and navigation gateway within the rail transport sector, design and develop a solution and perform a proof of concept activity.

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System for Safety in Multimodal Assisted Remotely Transports (SSMART)

The SSMART project will provide solutions for monitoring and managing multimodal (road, rail, waterways) transports of dangerous goods. Integrating and using available space technologies (satellite navigation, satellite communications, earth observation) with terrestrial systems SSMART will improve safety, coordination, information exchange, and communication for both routine transport operations as well as for emergency situations.

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Satellites enabling the Integration in Non-segregated airspace of UAS in Europe (SINUE)

The SINUE study will investigate the technical feasibility and economic / regulatory viability of integrating space based systems with UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems) in order to enable their integration into non-segregated airspace and to relay payload data for new institutional and commercial services in near real-time.

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Bird Strikes Risk Reduction for Civil Aviation

The present activity is concerned with reducing the risk to civil aviation of an accident in the airport airspace environment as a result of bird strike.

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SECCOH

"Management Centre for the Transport of Hazardous Goods in the Alpine Region" is an activity dedicated to the identification of users and requirements for the definition of services regarding the transport of Hazardous goods in the Alpine region.

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FlySafe

Bird strikes on aircraft pose a real safety threat for both military and civil aviation. Depending on specific circumstances such as the speed of the aircraft, the point of impact, the mass of the bird, the number of birds and the type of aircraft, bird strikes can result in devastating accidents.

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