Zusammenfassung
Summary
Satellite navigation has become an essential factor for all transport systems by now. As satellite based navigation systems are widely used today and will be applied to security-critical fields in the future, current development focuses on availability and integrity issues. The European satellite navigation system Galileo is the first civil-controlled system. Its advantages compared to other systems lie in accuracy, availability and reliability. In order to offer fully developed Galileo-based applications from the start, there are specific Galileo test and development environments, so-called GATEs. At these test areas, applications and products particularly related to navigation can be tested and validated. Based on the high economic relevance of these developments, the commercial success of the European satellite navigation system Galileo can be ensured. This article introduces the five German Galileo test sites. A special focus lays on the test environment for road and the test environment for railroad systems, whose construction was led by RWTH Aachen University. For each of these two GATEs, an RWTH research project is presented exemplarily demonstrating the integration of Galileo-based applications in automation tasks as well as in safety functions.