REPORT ON GNSS SERVICES IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAPgalileo.cs.telespazio.it/medusa/public/METIS GNSS Plans/Tunisia/METIS... · This document is the Annex to the METIS D04 “REPORT ON

REPORT ON GNSS SERVICES IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP

METIS

D04 ANNEX I - TUNISIA GNSS REGIONAL PLAN

Reference: METIS_2300_D-04

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REPORT ON GNSS SERVICES IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP METIS

Table of Contents 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................4

1.1 List of Acronyms ....................................................................................................4

2 INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS ON GNSS CURRENT STATUS .....................................................9

3 CIVIL AVIATION...............................................................................................................10 3.1 Main Stakeholders ...............................................................................................10 3.2 Current Status......................................................................................................10

3.2.1 Infrastructures ........................................................................................10 3.2.2 Users......................................................................................................11 3.2.3 Strategies...............................................................................................11 3.2.4 Operations .............................................................................................13

3.3 Opportunities and key issues...............................................................................13

4 MARITIME .......................................................................................................................14 4.1 Main stakeholders................................................................................................14

4.1.1 Maritime safety.......................................................................................14 4.1.2 Maritime freight ......................................................................................14

4.2 Current Status......................................................................................................14 4.2.1 Maritime safety.......................................................................................14 4.2.2 Maritime freight ......................................................................................15

4.3 Opportunities and key issues...............................................................................15

5 RAIL...............................................................................................................................17 5.1 Main stakeholders................................................................................................17 5.2 Current Status......................................................................................................17 5.3 Opportunities and key issues...............................................................................19

6 ROAD.............................................................................................................................20 6.1 Main stakeholders................................................................................................20 6.2 Current Status......................................................................................................20 6.3 Opportunities and key issues...............................................................................20

7 LAND APPLICATIONS.......................................................................................................22 7.1 Main stakeholders................................................................................................22 7.2 Current Status......................................................................................................22 7.3 Opportunities and key issues...............................................................................22


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8 PUBLIC SAFETY-SECURITY APPLICATIONS.......................................................................23 8.1 Main stakeholders................................................................................................23 8.2 Current Status......................................................................................................23 8.3 Opportunities and key issues...............................................................................23

9 CONCLUSIONS................................................................................................................24

List of Tables Table 1 Monthly movements in Tunisia..................................................................................11 Table 2 AFI GNSS Strategy up to 2017 .................................................................................12 Table 3 Freight traffic along the Trans-Maghreb Motorway ...................................................21

List of Figures Figure 1 Tunisia Rail Network ................................................................................................18


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1 INTRODUCTION This document is the Annex to the METIS D04 “REPORT ON GNSS SERVICES IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP”, and it is the part related to Tunisia.

1.1 LIST OF ACRONYMS A A-SMGCS Advanced-Surface Movement Guidance and Control Systems ABAS Aircraft Based Augmentation Systems ACAC Arab Civil Aviation Commission AIN Arab Institute of Navigation AIS Automatic Identification System AOC Advanced Operational Capability APV Approach with Vertical guidance APS Administration of Shipping and Ports ATM Air Traffic Management ATS Air Traffic Services ANSP Air Navigation Service Provider ASECP Association des Sociétés Européennes Concessionnaires d'Autoroutes

à Péage

B BOT Build-Operate-Transfer

C CAA Civil Aviation Authority CAT Category CDMA Code Division Multiple Access CEPOL European Police College CEMTO Transport Study Centre for the Western Mediterranean CNS Communication Navigation Surveillance COMESA Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa COMPASS Computer-Assisted Surveillance System COTS Commercial Off-The-Shelf

D DESTIN Defining and evaluating a strategic transport infrastructure network in the

Western Mediterranean DG AIDCO Directorate-General Energy and transport


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DGCA Directorate General for Civil Aviation DG TREN Directorate-General Energy and transport DME Distance Measuring Equipment DF Direction Finder

E EANPG Regional European Air Navigation Planning Group EC European Commission ECAC European Civil Aviation Conference ECTS European Credit Transfer System EGNOS European Geostationary Overlay System EFTA European Free Trade Area EIB European Investment Bank EMFTA Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area EMSA European Maritime Safety Agency ENPI European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument ESA European Space Agency ESARR EUROCONTROL Safety Regulatory Requirement ESCWA (United Nations) Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (or

UN-ESCWA) ESSP European Satellite Services Provider EU European Union EUMEDIS Euro-Mediterranean Information Society

F FATF Financial Action Task Force FEMIP Facility for Euro-Mediterranean Investment and Partnership FMS Flight Management System FSAP Financial Sector Assessment Program

G GAGAN GPS And GEO Augmented Navigation GATS General Agreement on Trade in Services GBAS Ground Based Augmentation Systems GCC Gulf Cooperation Council GDP Gross Domestic Product GIE Groupement d'Intérêt Economique GIS Geographic Information System GNSS Global Navigation Satellite System GSA European GNSS Supervisory Authority


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GPRS General Packet Radio Service GPS Global Positioning System GSM Global System for Mobile communications GTMO Transport Ministers Group of the Western Mediterranean

H HDI Human Development Index

I IATA International Air Transport Association ICAO International Civil Aviation Organization IFAC International Federation of Accountants ILO International Labour Organisation ILS Instrumental Landing System IMO International Maritime Organisation INFRAMED Transport infrastructure assessment in the Western Mediterranean IOP Initial Operation Phase IPPC International Plant Protection Convention ISCS International Ship and Port Facility Security Code ISPS International Ship and Port Security ITS Intelligent Transport Systems ITU International Telecommunications Union

L LAD Local Area-Demonstration (METIS) LBS Location-Based Services LPV Lateral-precision with vertical guidance

M MAFTA Mediterranean Arab Free Trade Area MARPOL International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships MARWAN Maroc Wide Area Network MoS Motorways of the Sea MoU Memorandum of Understanding MSAS MTSAT Satellite-based Augmentation System MSI Maritime Safety Information MTSAT Multi-Function Transport Satellite

N NDB Non Directional Beacon NPA Non Precision Approach


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O OIE World Organisation for Animal Health ONDA Moroccan Office National des Aéroports ONU Organisation des Nations Unies

P PC Personal Computer PDA Personal Digital Assistant PPA Parité de Pouvoir d'Achat (French: purchasing power parity)

PSC Political and Security Committee PSC Port State Control System P&LA Ports &Lighthouses Authorities

R R&D Research & Development RAIM Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring REG-MED Regulatory convergence to facilitate international transport in the

Mediterranean RIMS Ranging and Integrity Monitoring Station RNAV aRea NAVigation RNP Required Navigation Performances RTAP Regional Transport Action Plan RTCM Radio Technical Commission Maritime

S SAFEMED Project EuroMed Cooperation on Maritime Safety and Prevention of Pollution

from Ships SAR Search And Rescue SBAS Space Based Augmentation Systems SID Standard Instrument Departure SOLAS International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea SoW Statement of Work STAR Standard Terminal Arrival Routes

T TBC To Be Confirmed TBD To Be Defined TBW To Be Written TEU Twenty-feet Equivalent Units TPZ Telespazio TMA Terminal Area


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TAS Thales Alenia Space TAS-F Thales Alenia Space-France TEN Trans-European Network TTA Time To Alarm

U UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNDP United Nations Development Programme UN-ESCWA (United Nations) Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (or

ESCWA) USD United States Dollar

V VHF Very High Frequency VOR VHF Omni-directional Radio-range VMTS Vessel Traffic Management Services VTS Vessel Traffic Services

W WAAS Wide-Area Augmentation System WAD Wide-Area Demonstration (METIS) WP Work Package WWRNS World-Wide Radio Navigation System


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2 INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS ON GNSS CURRENT STATUS Tunisia is hosting a RIMS station installed in Djerba airport since 2002, in the frame of the EGNOS AOC (Advanced Operational Capability) architecture. It is the first operation station outside European region.

OACA is providing facilities and maintenance of Djerba RIMS, but Tunisia is currently negotiating the hand-over procedure from ESA to ESSP for the IOP period. Tunisia intention is to verify navigation performances over selected areas and airports, to validate EGNOS Simulation model and give awareness to potential users.


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3 CIVIL AVIATION

3.1 MAIN STAKEHOLDERS The main Tunisian stakeholders in the civil aviation domain are the followings:

Air Navigation Service Provider: Office de l’Aviation Civile et des Aereoports (OACA)

Civil Aviation Authority: Direction Generale de l’Aviation Civile (DGAC)

Airport Management: Office de l’Aviation Civile et des Aereoports (OACA).

In addition, some of the specific airspace users (National and regional airlines based in Tunisia) are: Tunisair (a National Company), Nouvelair, Sevenair, Karthago Airlines.

3.2 CURRENT STATUS This issue reports and details the status of the available plans (mostly at ICAO level) that have influence in the specific Country. In this issue the information have been derived by the existing documentation (including the METIS D01 and D02); a feedback is expected from local responsible actors to validate the data and support the further steps.

3.2.1 Infrastructures The status of the Navigation infrastructures for civil aviation is reported in the ICAO document [CNS/ATM/IC/SG/4, 10th March 2003, Table CNS 3 – Nav-Aids]; it has been analysed in the D01. In particular, we note 8 main airports, 5 of them allow Precision Approach, 3 of them have NPA procedures published.

Regarding the Air Navigation Infrastructure, it is based mostly on VOR for en-route, VOR, NDB and DME for approaches. OACA use own financial, technical and human resources to implement, manage and maintain the Navaid infrastructure. Year operation costs are below:

NDB (6 stations) = 45.000 euro/year

VOR (11 stations) = 400.000 euro/year

DME (7 stations) = 255.000 euro/year

ILS (8 stations) = 690.000 euro/year.

The Air Navigation equipment renewal and acquisition is planned through a five year development plan. In particular, 2 ILS, 5 NDB and 2 VOR are expected to be replaced in the period 2008 / 2009.


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3.2.2 Users Other important inputs to the definition of the regional and national plans are the information about the market size and evolutions. The following table reports the monthly movement in the main Tunisia airports.

Aerodrome Commercial Flights

General Aviation and Business Jets

Tunis 3645 547

Monastir 2888 62

Djerba 2043 10

Tozeur 206 134

Tabarka 82 12

Sfax 206 884

Table 1 Monthly movements in Tunisia

No information is available today about the aviation traffic forecast in the period 2007-2017 in the Country.

3.2.3 Strategies Tunisia is member of the ICAO European and North Atlantic (EUR/NAT) Office. As such, the ICAO Air Navigation Plan - European Region (EUR ANP) (ICAO Doc 7754) as developed by the EANPG, impacts also the Algeria Air Navigation services.

Tunisia is also included in the ICAO AFI (African and Indian Ocean) Planning and Implementation Regional Group (APIRG). The last 15th ICAO APIRG meeting has been held in Nairobi (Kenya) between September 26th and 30th 2005. Such meeting updated the AFI GNSS strategy developed by the AFI GNSS Working Group in the three phases, the first of them considered closed, and summarised in the following table.


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AFI GNSS Strategy

Phase I Phase II Phase III Timescale

2000-2005 2006-2011 2012-2017

Certification Basic GNSS/NPA En-route to LPV (APV-I)

En-route to CAT-I

En-route and Terminal

Basic GNSS GPS + SBAS Multi-constellation GNSS

Approach and Landing GPS/Baro NPA LPV (APV-I) SBAS

CAT-I SBAS

CAT-I/II/III GBAS

Table 2 AFI GNSS Strategy up to 2017

Today, OACA is implementing the ICAO Air Navigation strategy; being an interface between the ICAO European and the African Regions, the technical enhancement in the Tunisia air navigation infrastructure and services is considered a priority. This includes also the GNSS, in order to ensure smooth over-flights and safe air traffic.

In addition, the Eurocontrol’s Navigation Strategy for ECAC is taken into account in the preparation of the Tunisian CNS/ATM strategy. A mutual agreement was signed between Tunisia and Eurocontrol on September 1998.

Tunisia is part of the Arab Civil Aviation Commission (ACAC); in such frame, Tunisia is involved in the ACAC programme for air transport liberalisation, expected to be fully in force by 2007. Tunisia is also member of the Yamoussoukro Declaration which aims at opening up air transport exchanges across the entire African continent;

Since May 2005, in agreement with the EC, ACAC allows its members to negotiate horizontal agreements with the EC, in order to put existing bilateral air services agreements in conformity with Community law (EC has the mandate to negotiate such agreement with all third countries). At present Tunisia has not started negotiation with EC, and no Euro-Mediterranean Aviation Agreement is in place yet.

Tunisia has bilateral relationships with Italy for the harmonisation of the Air Navigation services, and with France.

Tunisia also participates to the BLUE MED project with Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus for the implementation of Functional Airspace Block over the central Mediterranean.


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3.2.4 Operations Tunisia today's use of GNSS based on GPS only according to decision of minister of Transport dated 4th November 2004. The implementation and approvals of the operational implementation of Area Navigation based on GNSS or VOR/DME is on-going, both for en-route than to SIDs and STARs, in compliance with the ICAO documents.

3.3 OPPORTUNITIES AND KEY ISSUES Today, few runways appear not equipped with systems providing vertical guidance and allowing Precision Approaches. RNAV/RNP is on-going in accordance to the ICAO rules. GNSS is an important enabler for speeding up the introduction of operational improvements increasing the level of safety and with less cost of a ground infrastructure. On this regards, it has to be noted anyway that the calendar for the EGNOS operational service start (2009 in Europe) does not allow decommissioning the installed NDB which replacement is due for the period 2007 / 08.

It remains, anyway, the advantages related to the fast and economical introduction of LPV approached in all the airports without dedicated ground infrastructures.


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4 MARITIME

4.1 MAIN STAKEHOLDERS

4.1.1 Maritime safety Under a Law of December 1998, the Merchant Marine and Ports Office (OMMP) was assigned to all the attributions of the maritime administration.

4.1.2 Maritime freight Main stakeholders are:

‐ Customs Administration

‐ CTN - Tunisian Navigation Company offers regular links between Tunisian ports and North Mediterranean ports by providing a recent and modern fleet (passengers and goods), adapted to the traffic requirements and in accordance with the quality standards.

‐ OMMP - Merchant Marine and Ports Office - The Tunisian maritime and commercial ports are managed by the Office of the Merchant Navy and Ports (Office de la Marine Marchande et des Ports – OMMP), a public state establishment endowed with financial autonomy and legal status. as a maritime authority, the OMMP provides merchant navy services, more specifically the administration of ships, seamen and maritime navigation security.

4.2 CURRENT STATUS

4.2.1 Maritime safety SOLAS, SAR and MARPOL IMOA conventions are ratified by Tunisia1.

Tunisia is a member of the regional Mediterranean Memorandum of Understanding with respect of the Port State Control, which includes: Israel, Cyprus, Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Egypt and Turkey.

1 IMO/MEDA project “Strengthening the maritime administrations of the Mediterranean: Capacity building for effective flag and port State functions - MED/B7/4100/97/0415/9” and updated as at 23 January 2005 as regards IMO Conventions.


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4.2.2 Maritime freight 8 main ports are located along the coastline.

Private sector companies for port operation has already started in Rades in respect of the container terminal.

4.3 OPPORTUNITIES AND KEY ISSUES Tunisia’s national economic development priorities, as set out in the Ninth Five Year Development Plan, include:

Diversification of exports away from textiles – in advance of the expected downturn in the textile market due to south-east Asian competition

Modernisation of key infrastructure – including water supply, power, and transport in the highly developed coastal regions

Environmental management – particularly the control of pollution, including from road traffic

Reducing the importance of the public sector in transport service delivery – particularly for road and rail services

Streamlining customs procedures and improving port transit times – mainly through the World Bank funded Export Development Project.

Vessel Tracking and Monitoring System (VTMS). Tunisia is concerned by the volume of shipping passing through the narrow waterway between Sicily and Tunisia and the legislation established by the EU in regard to tankers not being allowed in EU waters. This legislation was made as a response to the Erica and Prestige disasters.

One result of this is that takers are still used for transport of oil but they try and avoid the EU waterways. The distance between Sicily and Tunisia is approximately 100 Kms, the limit of EU waterways is about 50 kms from Sicily leaving a similar width waterway outside these limits and bordering Tunisia.

VTMS should be installed along the coastline of Tunisia, particularly at the North-East part of the country so that all vessels can be identified and their passage monitored. This would provide early warning of possible events as well as provide information on the whereabouts of vessels passing the shoreline of Tunisia.

The port of Rades is greatly enlarging its traffic of freight. The present operations at Rades need improving procedures presently applied in response to Customs demands for adequate inspection.

The Customs wish to inspect the majority of containers passing through the Port. This is an onerous requirement and very unlike procedures in EU ports.


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Use of technological solution can support the procedures less onerous so that effectiveness and efficiency of the Port can be improved.

It appears clear that two key GNSS applications in the maritime sector can be selected:

Maritime safety (VTMS)

Maritime freight (including custom tracking & tracing).


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5 RAIL

5.1 MAIN STAKEHOLDERS The state is the owner of the physical rail infrastructure.

Main public operators providing Tunisia with rail transport are:

Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Tunisiens (National Tunisian Railways Company) is the operator and owner of the rolling stock, being the state the owner of the physical rail infrastructure. Maintenance of the track and infrastructure is in the hands of a company called SOTRAFER

Société de Métro Léger de Tunis, that is specialised in the urban transport of passengers in one part of the capital. SMLT operates light rail trains on Tunis-La Marsa, plus the city tram in Tunis

Compagnie des Phosphates de Gafsa runs phosphate or trains around Metlaoui and Gafsa. However the long-distance trains are now operated by SNCFT.

5.2 CURRENT STATUS The Tunisian Railway Network of SNCFT is quite extensive in the north of the country, while there are no railways south of Gabès.

There is no international traffic, either freight or passenger to neighbouring Algeria even though the border is theoretically open. Passengers are reported as being too concerned with the danger of the journey and thus demand is perceived as being very low.


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Figure 1 Tunisia Rail Network


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For freight trains especially the line Metlaoui-Gabes-Sfax is of major importance. Over this line phosphate ore is transported from the mountains around Metlaoui to the port of Sfax.

In 2003, the SMLT has transported 122,7 millions of passengers. The global demand on the goods transport by land reached 16.805 millions of tonnes-kilometres in 2000, while the share of the rail transport reached more or less 2.300 millions of tonnes-kilometres (13,8%).

Intermodal facilities are available at five ports: Rades, Sousse, Sfax, Bizerte and Gabes Seven road/rail inter-modal platforms exist throughout the country. These platforms, which would in the future serve the multi-modal transport and ensure from start-to-finish transport, are located in Tunis, Nabeul, Kalaa, Sfax, Ghannouch, Kasserine, and Gafsa.

The SNCFT uses them to ensure both the wagon-truck transhipment and the inter modality.

An exchange of passengers and freight is made between Tunisia and Algeria on the Ghardimaou border. The concept of interoperability is possible as the rail systems of both countries were all constructed according to the French norms.

Furthermore, both networks are members of UIC and are in conformity with its technical recommendations on the standard lines.

The market share of the rail freight in Tunisia constitutes 13.5% of the total freight. In comparison with 2001, the traffic in 2002 has witnessed an approximate fall of 1.5%.

5.3 OPPORTUNITIES AND KEY ISSUES It is likely that the rail sector in the medium term will be specialised in commercially profitable activities such as phosphate transport and goods in bulk (i.e. fertilizers, cereals and cement) as well as the passengers transport by the main roads.

GNSS opportunities are in the wagons fleet and remote asset management, specifically for freight services.

However according to the feedbacks gathered from the MEDA operators involved in the METIS WAD, the development of infrastructures and logistic terminals is the highest priority (a few feasibility studies have been done). Thus for the METIS purposes of the GNSS Regional Plan in the time lag 2009-2019, rail cannot be considered a key market.


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6 ROAD

6.1 MAIN STAKEHOLDERS Construction, operation and maintenance of the motorways are the responsibility of the Société Tunisien des Autoroutes (STA) and all motorways are tolled motorways.

The planning and design/study of all other roads in the country is the responsibility of the Ministry des Equipment – (Direction des Ponts and Chaussées). Construction, operation and maintenance of all interurban roads other than motorways is also under the responsibility of the Ministry des Equipment.

6.2 CURRENT STATUS The Tunisian inter-urban road system is made up of the following classes of road,

Motorways

Route de grand parcours

Route de moyenne communicaition

Route Vicinale d’etat

Pistes.

Tunisia comprises about 19 000 kilometres of roads, (out of which more than 12 000 kilometres are surfaced) and approx. 150 kilometres are freeways.

Tolls are collected on motorways. The level of tolls is specified by the government but amounts collected are not sufficient to operate and maintain the motorways. Therefore, additional funds are necessary from the State budget. On the other hand, STA provides concessions for roadside facilities and services (gasoline stations, restaurants, service stations, hotel etc). The amount of collections is very small.

6.3 OPPORTUNITIES AND KEY ISSUES Mention shall be made of the Network (M) le Reseau de l’Union du Maghreb Arabe (Reseau “M”) based on the cooperation between countries in the Maghreb, namely Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya. The objectives of the “M” network are to:

Connect the five countries with a modern high standard road network

Apply uniform technical standards, road marking and signing, and

Facilitate transport movements between Maghreb and other African countries.


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The Trans-Maghreb Motorway system makes up part of Tunisia main road corridors.

Next table shows indication of the trade along the Trans-Maghreb Motorway, showing that most o the freight traffic is via sea.

Table 3 Freight traffic along the Trans-Maghreb Motorway

GNSS technologies and services can be introduced for the following two road applications:

Road charging

Road freight (for heavy trucks and hazardous goods).

For the first application, due to lack of information and inputs from the national actors, it is difficult to evaluate if there are opportunities for EGNOS-based services in the next 10 years: road charging there is no element.

Concerning road freight, the same consideration done for rail can be applied: the development of logistic platforms and terminal is a priority and the pre-requirement for a developed road freight community (indeed, for freight transportation, the sea trade is the most important sector).

For this reason, the road application domain is not taken into account for further analysis for Tunisia.


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7 LAND APPLICATIONS

7.1 MAIN STAKEHOLDERS METIS researches have not found any information on this domain for the country.

7.2 CURRENT STATUS METIS researches have not found any information on this domain for the country.

7.3 OPPORTUNITIES AND KEY ISSUES Due to lack of information and inputs from the national actors, it is difficult to evaluate if there are opportunities for EGNOS-based services in the next 10 years. For this reason, this application domain is not taken into account for further analysis for Tunisia.


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8 PUBLIC SAFETY-SECURITY APPLICATIONS

8.1 MAIN STAKEHOLDERS METIS researches have not found any information on this domain for the country.

8.2 CURRENT STATUS METIS researches have not found any information on this domain for the country.

8.3 OPPORTUNITIES AND KEY ISSUES Due to lack of information and inputs from the national actors, it is difficult to evaluate if there are opportunities for EGNOS-based services in the next 10 years. For this reason, this application domain is not taken into account for further analysis for Tunisia.


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9 CONCLUSIONS Based on the METIS analysis, the following GNSS key applications could be considered of interest in the next 5-10 years:

Civil Aviation

Maritime safety

Maritime freight.

Civil Aviation has been included among EGNOS key applications for all the 10 MEDA countries.

In particular for Tunisia, this also confirmed by the ANSP filled questionnaire. Tunisia takes part to various Regional Groups and ICAO regions (see D04 master).

Mandatory general requirement is the continuation of the effort in Air Navigation strategy (ICAO planning and Implementation Regional Group) by the Institutions.

Maritime safety has been included among EGNOS key applications for all the 10 MEDA countries, considering the historical and geographical importance of the maritime sector inside the Mediterranean basin.

IMO SOLAS, SAR and MARPOL conventions are ratified by Algeria (see METIS D04 - annex).

Tunisia is a member of the regional Mediterranean Memorandum of Understanding with respect of the Port State Control, which includes: Israel, Cyprus, Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Malta, Morocco, Tunisia and Turkey.

VTMS implementation is in plan, and the geographical location calls for such an implementations (due to the need to harmonise with the EU standards and operations):

Mandatory general requirements are the VTS developments in all main ports in the country and to support the IMO EGNOS implementation strategy.

Considering the vicinity to EU coasts, the maritime freight is extremely important. This is also confirmed by one of the METIS demonstrations. Institutional actions are fundamental, to support the development of maritime trade: participation to MoS policies, incentivation to stimulate relations with other countries (especially EU) and facilitation of customs procedures.

According to the questionnaire feedbacks, the priority for the Road sector is the enhancement of infrastructures and connections.


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According to the questionnaire feedbacks, the priority for the Rail sector is the enhancement of infrastructures and services.

The Inland Waterways domain cannot be selected for obvious reasons.

For the LBS and GIS/Precise Positioning sectors, various GPS based solutions and services are offered by commercial providers.

There is no clear evidence for the possibility for EGNOS to compete with existing products.

Main requirements are the diffusion of GPS products and the lack of sound business cases for EGNOS (in comparison with GPS based products and services).


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