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Tracking and tracing solutions which are widely adopted for the transport of dangerous goods are largely based on the use of devices using satellite navigation technologies (GNSS / Global

Navigation Satellite Systems, primarily GPS) for localization and different telecommunication means for data transmission (satellite and/or terrestrial). These devices are installed on board the freight vehicle or on the asset, and can integrate sensors (primarily based on the use of Radio Frequency Identi? cation technologies) to enable the monitoring of the status of the goods.

as the next promising step, being rail the sector beside road from Austria and France to Italy. HOYER, a European trans- where EGNOS opportunities have to be exploited further. port company operating in the sector of chemical and gas, and

Capitalizing on this heritage, the EU R&D project, CORE Italy’s and France’s Ministry of Transport are involved in the (Consistently Optimized REsilient Secure Global Supply- demonstrator, providing the perspectives of the business and

Chains), which began in 2014 and will run until 2018, analyz- the authorities’ stakeholders.

es the use of EGNOS and Galileo for the intermodal transport CORE’s solution for the “Intermodal transport of Danger- of dangerous goods, in terms of safety, ef? ciency and also se- ous Goods” demonstrator contributes to the implementation curity. One of the demonstrators developed in CORE extends of the Cooperative-ITS (C-ITS) in Europe, and speci? cally to

SCUTUM to the intermodal road-rail transport of chemicals the creation of value added services oriented to the transport and gas shipped across Europe (“Intermodal transport of Dan- of special goods and sensitive materials.

gerous Goods” demonstrator).

Figure 2 shows the ITS solution developed in CORE for this demonstrator. The solution integrates multi-GNSS technolo-

Antonella Di Fazio works at Telespazio, an

Italian company that is part of the Leonardo/ gies, based on the European systems (EGNOS and Galileo), the

Finmeccanica-Thales space alliance, and having

Russian system GLONASS and the Chinese system BEIDOU, satellite services core businesses. Antonella is in for tracking and tracing the transport of dangerous goods.

charge of satellite navigation applications &

The solution is validated in life operations and in real busi- services. She is the coordinator of the CORE ness cases of intermodal tankers transporting Argon through- demonstrator related to the transport of dangerous goods.

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