Expected Main Benefits

The main benefits of the proposed system are:

• cost reduction for investment and operation (reduce costs by saving the expensive wiring)
• performance improvement with an equivalent safety level as existing systems
• save environmental resources
• increase the commercial competition of railway operators
• the capability to integrate additional functions based on satellite navigation data

Figure 4: Characteristics of the level crossing (LX) Alkoven and its vicinity with respect to GPS/EGNOS visibility