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Project GALILEO

Acronym GALILEO

Title Impact of GALILEO on road transport

Co-ordinator ICCR, Austria

Client European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre

Contract Number 1483-2003-12 F1ED SEV GB

Duration December 2003 - January 2005

Person Responsible Liana Giorgi

Objectives
GALILEO represents one of the biggest investments ever made by European Governments and Industry. It has been suggested that the services that GALILEO can help provide will be a vital tool in meeting the requirements of both the Common Transport Policy and National Policies in road transport.

Achieving these requires several steps:

GALILEO needs to be adopted widely within industry and by users to enable the critical mass of services to be sustainable - to do this they need to be more attractive than other alternatives;

these services then need to have the desired overall positive impact upon road transport and help deliver policy; and

obstacles will need to be overcome and risks identified and managed in areas such as technology, legislation and institutional agreements and commercial operations, as well as policy.

GALILEO could act as the catalyst for a whole range of new services and for the wider development of emerging services, such as satellite navigation and emergency location. To make the most of this opportunity, both the Commission and key stakeholders need to look ahead to develop a vision of the future, with detailed scenarios of how GALILEO might be used to:

help deliver policy;

improve services for the benefit of the people of Europe and the goods they need; and

help European stakeholders have a world market for their expertise, products and services.

Delivering this vision requires a clear understanding of what the impacts of these policy tools that develop using GALILEO might be, how they may work together or how tensions between them may develop and above all, the benefits that might accrue. To date, the feasibility studies of Galileo have looked at the economic impacts and markets for GALILEO, not necessarily its downstream use in new services.

In line with these requirements the GREAT study aims to:

provide robust quantitative estimates of the impact of Galileo on road transport and especially how these impacts will help deliver policy;

develop the vision for the use of Galileo in 2020 to assess these impacts in detail - in terms of the impacts on a wide framework of key performance indicators related to transport rather than just the economy;

identify risks and obstacles to deployment and recommend solutions to these; and, above all

ensure that the development of GALILEO can proceed with the information needed about how its impacts on the road transport sector can be managed and steered to deliver joined up policy requirements.

The study will deliver:

a study based on relevant data that examines a base case and a range of scenarios that reflect the range of developments that could occur with Galileo;

assessment of a range of GALILEO based services driven by the impact they could have on policy and on road users - these need to reflect the range of road conditions, transport policies and commercial models applying throughout the current and future members of the EU but also wider markets too;

well defined quantitative estimates of the impacts on road transport that these services might have, paying particular attention to the implications of these benefits and especially how they might be integrated together (for example if car park management and dynamic route guidance were to be combined to offer a network wide opportunity for car park strategic management);

clearly defined assumptions with a transparent methodology;

the support and input of key stakeholders in to the development process, so that the deliverables have wide acceptance and credibility;

an easily understandable summary section suitable for discussion by a wider non technological audience; and

a credible assessment of how GALILEO will make a difference and what needs to be done to make the most of the opportunity.

Project Partners FaberMaunsell, Great Britain
Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems (ISIS), Italy

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Acronym	GALILEO
Title	Impact of GALILEO on road transport
Co-ordinator	ICCR, Austria
Client	European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre
Contract Number	1483-2003-12 F1ED SEV GB
Duration	December 2003 - January 2005
Person Responsible	Liana Giorgi
Objectives	GALILEO represents one of the biggest investments ever made by European Governments and Industry. It has been suggested that the services that GALILEO can help provide will be a vital tool in meeting the requirements of both the Common Transport Policy and National Policies in road transport. Achieving these requires several steps: GALILEO needs to be adopted widely within industry and by users to enable the critical mass of services to be sustainable - to do this they need to be more attractive than other alternatives; these services then need to have the desired overall positive impact upon road transport and help deliver policy; and obstacles will need to be overcome and risks identified and managed in areas such as technology, legislation and institutional agreements and commercial operations, as well as policy. GALILEO could act as the catalyst for a whole range of new services and for the wider development of emerging services, such as satellite navigation and emergency location. To make the most of this opportunity, both the Commission and key stakeholders need to look ahead to develop a vision of the future, with detailed scenarios of how GALILEO might be used to: help deliver policy; improve services for the benefit of the people of Europe and the goods they need; and help European stakeholders have a world market for their expertise, products and services. Delivering this vision requires a clear understanding of what the impacts of these policy tools that develop using GALILEO might be, how they may work together or how tensions between them may develop and above all, the benefits that might accrue. To date, the feasibility studies of Galileo have looked at the economic impacts and markets for GALILEO, not necessarily its downstream use in new services. In line with these requirements the GREAT study aims to: provide robust quantitative estimates of the impact of Galileo on road transport and especially how these impacts will help deliver policy; develop the vision for the use of Galileo in 2020 to assess these impacts in detail - in terms of the impacts on a wide framework of key performance indicators related to transport rather than just the economy; identify risks and obstacles to deployment and recommend solutions to these; and, above all ensure that the development of GALILEO can proceed with the information needed about how its impacts on the road transport sector can be managed and steered to deliver joined up policy requirements. The study will deliver: a study based on relevant data that examines a base case and a range of scenarios that reflect the range of developments that could occur with Galileo; assessment of a range of GALILEO based services driven by the impact they could have on policy and on road users - these need to reflect the range of road conditions, transport policies and commercial models applying throughout the current and future members of the EU but also wider markets too; well defined quantitative estimates of the impacts on road transport that these services might have, paying particular attention to the implications of these benefits and especially how they might be integrated together (for example if car park management and dynamic route guidance were to be combined to offer a network wide opportunity for car park strategic management); clearly defined assumptions with a transparent methodology; the support and input of key stakeholders in to the development process, so that the deliverables have wide acceptance and credibility; an easily understandable summary section suitable for discussion by a wider non technological audience; and a credible assessment of how GALILEO will make a difference and what needs to be done to make the most of the opportunity.
Project Partners	FaberMaunsell, Great Britain Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems (ISIS), Italy