Explanation of the European Egnos system also satellite navigation for trains (Locoloc pilot project)

EGNOS: Satellite Navigation for Trains
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The sleepy suburb town of Gembloux, south of Brussels
Home to around 20.000 people É many of whom work in the capital.
A quiet day at the station, waiting for the evening rush hour.
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But the calm is broken from time to time É.
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É as a train rushed through É highlighting the need to keep the most minor branch line under constant surveillance.
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Tucked away in a siding É a specially fitted out carriage with some unusual passengers É computer experts É
É. From Alstom which in partnership with the European Space Agency is carrying out a satellite navigation pilot project É Locoloc.
10.01.33 ITV Michel Rousseau
The train is equipped with an on-board computer with interfaces with the satellite receptors É. allowing the train to be pin-point its position.
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Priority number one : accuracy É the European EGNOS system will correct the US GPS system whoÕs signals are subject to alterations in the ionosphere..