GNNS would also allow to monitor the movements of humanitarian actors and others on the ground and on the crisis scene, to strengthen the humanitarian needs and impact asessments, to provide accurate information on the problems of access to the affected populations in remote and areas that are difficult to access, to immediately track population movements, to identify safe areas for the set up of camps for refugees/internal displaced populations outside disaster prone areas, to optimise the allocation of financial, material and human resources, to increase the rapid response capacity, and to strengthen the overal humanitarian aid respons ...[+++]e.

Galileo's satellite navigation data will also benefit critical services for citizens and users, for example it will make road and rail transport systems safer and improve our responses to emergency situations.

6. HIGHLIGHTS the strategic issue of control of information technology and ENCOURAGES the Commission to consider to what extent Community policies can provide an environment facilitating the contribution of satellite communication systems to the information society and promoting RTD projects in this area in conjunction with the ESA and European applications systems operators;

Regarding civilian markets, Thomson-CSF and Racal are both active in air traffic management systems (ATMs), satellite communication systems (satcoms), navigation and mission computers for helicopters, cellular base-station antennas, telecommunication systems and services to the rail industry, transportation telematic activities, information systems security, payment and card related products.

The framework would allow the establishment of such networks with very few lincences: 1 COM(93)652 - satellite based, mobile data communications and fleet management systems, roadhaulage companies with long distance fleets are increasing their flexibility via the use of state-of-the art satellite communciations systems to determine the positions of their vehicles and provide them with the latest dispatch information, no matter where th ...[+++]e vehicles are.

It calls upon the Commission to continue its endeavours in full cooperation with the Member States through the Research Programme Committees. 3. The Council notes that certain research goals require experimentation on an appropriate scale, in particular in the areas of rail traffic management (BRTMS), the use of satellite navigation systems (GNSS), road toll systems and shipping information systems (VTMIS).