Study on application status and standard system of BDS in transportation

Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) has been widely used in different fields of transportation, including transportation supervision, security responses, highway construction and administration as well as waterway construction and administration. Over the past 5 years, breakthroughs have been achieved in the typical application fields of BeiDou navigation satellite system (BDS) such as dynamic safety supervision for road transport, vessel monitoring and management and security responses with the growing demands for applying BDS in national demonstration projects. To standardize and improve the quality of GNSS application service in transportation, the Ministry of Transport of the People's Republic of China has established related standards for GNSS applications. However, problems such as too narrow coverage, repeated formulation, varying quality and difficulties in coordination have appeared owing to the lack of top-down designs and plans as the development of the transportation informatization. In this paper, transportation application standard System of BDS is proposed to guide the formulation of BDS application standards in transportation by comprehensively considering the transportation application requirements and a systematic summary of the status of GNSS application standards in transportation.