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
  • Scheduling
  • Navigational aids
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Final report
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Office of the Secretary
• 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?”
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/9093/dot_9093_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 170.16 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
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