Benefit-cost assessment of the use of LORAN to mitigate GPS vulnerability for positioning, navigation, and timing services

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• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Benefit Cost Analysis Global Positioning System Navigational Aids Scheduling
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Office of the Secretary
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS-GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS ; NTL-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
• Abstract:
  In 2001, a Volpe Center study assessed the vulnerability of the transportation system to
  
  loss of the Global Positioning System (GPS).1 Subsequent to this assessment, the
  
  Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation initiated an examination of
  
  approaches to mitigating this vulnerability. One system-wide possibility is to modify
  
  plans for the existing LORAN system, which is currently scheduled to cease operations in
  
  2008, to serve as a back-up to GPS. Within the U.S. Department of Transportation,
  
  there is a concurrent activity to provide a technical assessment of LORAN’s capability to
  
  provide this mitigation. The purpose of this independent Volpe assessment is to
  
  complement the broader concurrent technical analysis of LORAN 3 by addressing the
  
  question, “Given the need to provide a GPS back-up, is enhanced LORAN more cost beneficial
  
  than not having LORAN?”
  
  
• Format:
  PDF
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:e748fd1e5c85f76e85916d32014e951d0479be37ae5fb771d201b922d563e995
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9093/dot_9093_DS1.pdf
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