GINA -GNSS for innovative road applications-: EGNOS / Galileo for road user charging and Value Added Services

Galileo/EGNOS can be key to reduce the negative impact of road transport and offer new business opportunities, such as road pricing and other value added services. The GSA/EC co-funded FP7 project GINA addresses the adoption of EGNOS/Galileo in the road sector considering technical feasibility on a large scale, economic viability and positive impacts in aspects such as congestion and pollution. The project leverages on three main activities: analysis of the context for a nationwide GNSS-based road pricing (and VAS) solution-giving emphasis to business aspects, implementation of a nation-wide large-scale demonstrator of GNSS-based road pricing (having the ABvM systems promoted by the Dutch Government as a reference) and VAS (complying with requirements defined by real end-users) and a solid dissemination strategy. This paper addresses the added-value of position integrity in these applications and the setting up of a large scale demonstrator in the Netherlands using EGNOS.