SISTER blasts off!

Date: 06 March 2007

SISTER project launches its new website – www.sister-project.org - and plans Prague workshop.

Finding information about the EC-supported Integrated Project SISTER (Satcom in Support of Transport on European Roads) – in which ERTICO is a participant – has been made easy thanks to its new website, www.sister-project.org. The website, among other things, features SISTER objectives and milestones as well as news from the SISTER Forum and test sites.

SISTER aims to promote the integration of satellite and terrestrial communications with GALILEO to enable mass market take-up by road transport applications.

The scale of the road transport market combined with innovative solutions to road transport problems requiring the integration of location based services with communications makes this market potentially extremely attractive.

SISTER will establish how satellite communications can be used as part of the operational implementation of ITS applications. SISTER will NOT perform research into the development of NEW applications, but will investigate how the operation of satellite affects the operation of such services. The project will build on and complement the large volume of work already performed in this field in European Space Agency (ESA), EU and GALILEO Joint Undertaking (GJU) projects.

The SISTER project brings together major players in the value chain for road transport telematics applications with key actors in the space infrastructure and service delivery industries and aims at answering to key questions such as:

• What kind of applications that can be enabled through the satcom?
• What is the value added of satcom to GALILEO applications?
• What is the potential of satcom to support the development of GALILEO commercial services?
• What is the size of the market opportunity for satellite services to support ITS applications?

First SISTER workshop in Prague!
On 17 April 2007, the SISTER Integrated Project will hold its first workshop in Prague, Czech Republic to present the results of the analysis phase and the applications requirements. Participation is open to members of any organisation with an interest in the SISTER project.

Go to the SISTER website for information regarding registration and event logistics. The deadline for confirming your participation is Wednesday, 11 April 2007.

For further information, please contact ERTICO Junior Project Manager, Sophie Dupuis.