EUROPEAN SATELLITE-NAVIGATION SYSTEM GALILEO AND ITS POSSIBLE USES IN TRAFFIC

Diplomsko delo je napisano z namenom predstavitve projekta Evropske Unije z imenom Galileo. Gre za sistem satelitske navigacije, ki ga EU razvija s pomočjo Evropske vesoljske agencije. Razvoj Galilea se je začel že v devetdesetih letih prejšnjega stoletja, vendar se je projekt na svoji poti srečal z mnogimi ovirami, kot so težavna pogajanja z ZDA o frekvencah in interoperabilnosti s sistemom GPS, in pa s težavami pri financiranju, saj je začetna ideja o javno-zasebnem partnerstvu propadla in je EU postala edini investitor v Galilea. V času pisanja dela je razvoj Galilea v polnem teku. Testna faza je končana, začele se bodo izstrelitve dejanskih satelitov. Popolna operabilnost sistema se pričakuje v letu 2013.This diploma thesis is written with the intention to present a project of the European Union named Galileo. Galileo is a satellite-navigation system that EU is developing in cooperation with the European Space Agency. Galileo development began in the 90’s in the previous century. However there were many obstacles in the process, including difficult negotiations with the USA regarding frequencies and interoperability with GPS, and also financing troubles, when the firstly planned public-private partnership failed to succeed. In the time of writing this thesis Galileo development in well under way. The test phase is complete and the actual Galileo satellites are to begin launching soon. Galileo is expected to reach full operability in 2013