STARS Project

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation

program under grant agreement No. 687414

Jose Bertolin, Project Manager (UNIFE),

Bernhard Stamm, Project Technical Leader (SIEMENS)

Introduction to STARS

project, Technical Objectives

& Challenges

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Introductory remarks

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Application of GNSS in railways into the safety domain

Railway APP no directly

safety critical

Aviation Use Case of

Success

More Frequent Use

GNSS Technology

Surveying Tracks

Passengers

Information System

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Why use GNSS in Safety Critical Railway Applications

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ETCS (EUROPEAN TRAIN CONTROL SYSTEM)

System rolled out around Europe to replace more than 20 national legacy systems. Also

extended all around the world (ETCS standard).

REDUCE TRACKSIDE INFRASTRUCTURE

Eliminate the Eurobalises used as position reference markers replacing them by the

Virtual Balise concept

BENEFITS• Reduce cost of Signaling

• Increase availability

• Reduce Maintenance requirements

APPLICABILITY BASED ETCS

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• Exposure to thefts

• Vandalism

• Low Density secondary lines in Europe

• Solution Universal applicable (ETCS standard)

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Origin STARS project

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No previous public

investigation on

thoroughly true

environmental impacts

on GNSS performanceGSA funded project to

investigate GNSS usage

into safety critical

applications.

Industry proposed:

1. Measurement campaign

2. Data analysis

3. Realistic Investigation of

GNSS achievable

performance in railway

environment

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Basic figures about the STARS project

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UNIFE

coordinated

24 months

Start:

1.2.2016

Duration Beneficiaries BudgetCall

GALILEO-1-

2014-2015:

EGNSS apps

4,46 M€

3,26 M€

(funding)

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STARS Project Consortium

Signaling Companies Space Industry

Consultancy & Specific Expertise Research Centers

STARS Coordinator

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Key project objectives

To develop a universal approach to predict the

achievable GNSS performance in a railway

environment, especially for safety critical applications

within ERTMS and to determine the necessary

evolution of ETCS to include GNSS services

To quantify the economic benefits through

reduction of cost, which will increase market

appeal of ERTMS

Expected results

➢ To predict performance in

the railway environment in

terms of accuracy, availability

and safety

➢ To achieve interoperability

between equipment of

different suppliers

➢ To allow inclusion of GNSS

into ERTMS

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Overall structure of the STARS work-plan

• WP1 - Project management and coordination (UNIFE)Project management

• WP2 - Preparation of campaign (Ansaldo STS)

• WP3 – Field measurement, data collection (SIEMENS)GNSS Measurement

Campaign

• WP4 - Data post-processing (AZD Praha)

• WP5 - EGNOS technology feasibility study (TAS)

GNSS Data Analyses and Performance

Evaluation

• WP6 - Impact analyses (Bocconi University)GNSS Economic

Evaluation

• WP7 - Dissemination and exploitation (UNIFE)Communication

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Major links between STARS and other projects / initiatives

SHIFT2RAIL IP2 IP2 TD 2.4

Fail-safe train positioning

UNISIG Satellite WG

2013 2022

NGTC - WP7

European GNSS Agency

ERSAT - EAV

2016 2017 2018

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STARS Projectwww.stars-rail.eu

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020

research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 687414

Thank you for your attention!

UNIFE

Avenue Louise 221

B-1050 Brussels (Belgium)

Jose.bertolin@unife.org

http://www.stars-rail.eu

+32 2 642 23 24

Jose Bertolin