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GNSS for Rail Transportation

Challenges and Opportunities

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  • © 2018

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Editors:
  1. Letizia Lo Presti

    1. Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

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  2. Salvatore Sabina

    1. Ansaldo STS, Genoa, Italy

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  • Focuses on the application of GNSS integrity to rail transportation
  • Includes examples and case studies of good engineering practice for GNSS technologies and applications
  • Explains the content in a simple way (requires only basic mathematics), with numerous illustrations and examples

Part of the book series: PoliTO Springer Series (PTSS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction and Book Objectives

    • Letizia Lo Presti, Salvatore Sabina
    Pages 1-6

  3. GNSS Integrity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Review of Common Navigation Algorithms and Measurements Errors

      • Letizia Lo Presti, Marco Pini
      Pages 9-23

    3. Fundamentals of Integrity Monitoring

      • Letizia Lo Presti, Giulio Franzese
      Pages 25-57

    4. Evaluation of the Confidence Intervals

      • Letizia Lo Presti, Giulio Franzese
      Pages 59-86

    5. Methods for Protection-Level Evaluation with Augmented Data

      • Letizia Lo Presti, Marco Pini
      Pages 87-118

  4. The Railway Application

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. The Rail Environment: A Challenge for GNSS

      • Salvatore Sabina, Fabio Poli, Nazelie Kassabian
      Pages 121-204

    3. A New Perspective for GNSS Based Safe Train Position

      • Salvatore Sabina, Nazelie Kassabian, Fabio Poli
      Pages 205-232

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 233-244
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About this book

This book proposes a general methodology to introduce Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) integrity, starting from a rigorous mathematical description of the problem. It highlights the major issues that designers need to resolve during the development of GNSS-based systems requiring a certain level of confidence on the position estimates. Although it follows a general approach, the final chapters focus on the application of GNSS integrity to rail transportation, as an example. By describing the main requirements in the context of train position function, one of which is the safe function of any train control system, it shows the critical issues associated with the concept of safe position integrity. In particular, one case study clarifies the key differences between the avionic domain and the railway domain related to the application of GNSS technologies, and identifies a number of railway-signaling hazards linked with the use of such technology. Furthermore, it describes various railway-signaling techniques to mitigate such hazards to prepare readers for the future evolution of train control systems, also based on the GNSS technology. This unique book offers a valuable reference guide for engineers and researchers in the fields of satellite navigation and rail transportation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET), Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy

    Letizia Lo Presti

  • Ansaldo STS, Genoa, Italy

    Salvatore Sabina

About the editors

Letizia Lo Presti is full professor of Signal Processing and Telecommunication at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her research interests focus on signal processing algorithms for satellite navigation. She has been the coordinator of the  Master on Navigation and Related Applications (MNRA) of Politecnico di Torino for several years.

Salvatore Sabina is the head of Satellite projects at Ansaldo STS, Genoa, Italy. Ansaldo STS is a leading international company operating in the design, implementation and management of systems and services for signaling and supervision of railway and urban traffic.

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