GMV is leading a team of 12 European-based companies to develop a road sector project called GINA for the European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA).
GINA involves utilizing EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service and GALILEO, the European satellite-navigation program, to ensure the highest degree of accuracy of vehicle positioning and position integrity to prevent drivers from incurring inaccurate road or "toll-like" charges.
"The GINA project will prevent drivers who are entering toll areas or circulating near them from being mischarged," said Sara Gutierrez, co-coordinator of Navigation Engineering and Applications Division at GMV.
"In addition, drivers will benefit from other services that can be incorporated into the devices in their cars such as usage-based insurance and real-time traffic information."
Road transportation is currently used by more than 70% of commercial operations at the intra-community level and this has led to increased traffic congestion, pollution and road accidents. The European Union is considering updating the toll-type application to be based on actual road use.
The future Dutch ABvM system (Anders Betalen voor Mobiliteit), is the first and only nationwide, all-vehicle, GNSS-based road pricing system. The requisites defined by the Dutch Government for this kilometer-price scheme and its characteristics will be used as a benchmark for setting up GINA's large-scale road-pricing trial.
The consortium partners representing end users will also provide their knowledge and expertise to help define the technical and commercial requirements of other value added services that may be provided by the same technical infrastructure (onboard equipment or OBU and central platform).
It is expected to take 24 months to develop and test GINA.
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