GIROADS in a nutshell

GIROADS (GNSS Introduction in the ROAD Sector), a 24-month project commissioned by the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) with funds from the European Commission's 6th Framework Programme for Research and Technology Development, aggregates the road and GNSS communities' proposals to facilitate the technical and commercial introduction of Europe’s satellite navigation programme to the road transport sector.

The road sector represents one of the largest mass markets for GNSS technology applications both in terms of number of users and business volume with a continuous growth of demand expected in the next decade. The underlying philosophy behind the GIROADS project is that a number of key applications have the potential to become enablers of transport policy as a whole while giving rise to commercially viable service provision schemes of interest to a wide range of stakeholders. These applications are being individually analysed to understand user requirements, assess the existing regulatory framework and build a realistic market study that can serve as a reference to the sector.

GIROADS bases its technical programme on an architecture which associates existing components previously developed under GJU-funded research projects (ADvantis, VeRT and SCORE) within an open, robust and scalable system which can support application-specific service centres through a common technical structure.

 

Links of interest:

Galileo in the road sector (EN and ES versions)

"Showing the path to Intelligent Roads" (GIROADS Brochure - June 2007)

The GIROADS partnership

 

 

Public Deliverables:

Title Of Deliverable

Deliverable ID

Delivery date

Final report

 D1100.e

 31/01/2008

Report on Application Groups and Applications Groups modelling

 D2240  11/11/2005

Action plan and recommendations: EU perspective

 D2450  20/04/2006

Technology state of the art survey

 D3210.a  05/05/2006

Road actors user requirements

 D3210.b  05/05/2006

Market Analysis in Main Road Applications in European community

 D4220.b  15/02/2007

Market Analysis in Main Road Applications in China

 D4220.c  02/02/2007

Business Model Study Report per AG

 D4320  24/05/2006

Cost Benefit Study Report per AG

 D4330  14/07/2006

Social Benefit Study Report per AG

 D4340  16/06/2006

Analysis of Regulatory & Legal Framework in the Road Sector

 D5220.b  14/06/2006
Report on Regulatory Framework, Standardisation and Certification Regime in non-EU countries: the Chinese perspective  D5500.a  04/12/2006

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