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Who benefits: some practical applications

Find your way - Location Based Services (LBS) and Personal Mobility

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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.

Search and rescue and law enforcement

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Bad weather can ground a rescue operation

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.

Credits: Europcopter

Travel by road

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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.

Credits: ESA

Travel by air

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EGNOS will help to improve air safety.

Rail

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A series of trials with the Belgian state railway (SNCB), use data from the EGNOS navigation system to provide precise positioning of trains on the track at any given time. The trials are being run by train builders Alstrom in partnership with ESA.

Maritime

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The MV Arctic, owned and operated by Canarctic Shipping. Courtesy GEC-Marconi Ltd. and Canarctic Shipping

Multi-modal Transport and Remote Asset Tracking

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EGNOS will help to improve transport services and to trace vehicles

Technology and Facilities Development

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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.

Credits: ESA

Last update: 7 October 2004