A region in France is working with SNCF to foster the emergence of new solutions, including GNSS technologies, for the operation and control of regional trains and railway infrastructure. The Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region and GUIDE (GNSS Testing Laboratory) signed an agreement to open a railway line to field tests for companies seeking to perform assessments aboard trains.
The Geofer project, managed by GUIDE, will allow the testing of applications in operational situations. The applications are based on radionavigation and telecommunication data initially intended for other business sectors, gpsworld.com informs.
Through the Geofer project, the Occitanie/Pyrénées-Méditerranée Region is pursuing two strategic goals. The first aims to strengthen mobility within the region through better control of operating costs. The second is to diversify industrial activities with rail. The project could lead to modernization of secondary lines of the national railway network by embedding, for example, some functions of railway signaling.
The test region — the Tessonnières-Rodez line (Tarn/Aveyron) — crosses a mountainous area meant to conduct tests in constrained environments.
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