ESA Navigation projects Location Based Services (LBS) and Personal Mobility     A handheld personal receiver would use satellite navigation to avoid traffic jams in city centres, find the nearest free parking space, or even the nearest pizza restaurant in an unfamiliar city. Road     Satellite navigation will help regulate road use and minimise traffic jams. If all vehicles are fitted with a satellite receiver and a data transmitter, their position can be relayed automatically to a central station. Rail     In a project called Integrail, funded by the European Space Agency, Kayser-Threde (D) in partnership with Bombardier Transportation/Rail Control Solutions (D) and ifEN GmbH (D) have developed a system that uses satellite-based navigation information for railway traffic management and signalling. Maritime     Satellite navigation systems benefit shipping. Photo: GEC-Marconi Ltd. and Canarctic Shipping Aviation     EGNOS will help to improve air safety. Multi-modal Transport and Remote Asset Tracking     EGNOS will help to improve transport services and to trace vehicles Emergency Management and Law Enforcement     Helicopter Emergency Services (HEMS) deal with emergency evacuations and inter-hospital transport across Europe. Improved navigation information from EGNOS could mean fewer cancelled flights due to adverse weather conditions. Technology and Facilities Development     The GSTB-V1 processing centre is sited at the European Space Agency (ESA-ESTEC) in The Netherlands. The aim is to solve the issues surrounding positioning, timing and integrity by making use of existing navigation data. These data are collected from a globally distributed network of sensor stations established in co-operation with the International GPS Service and Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) community. Last update: 20 February 2006