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Volpe Center Highlights - March 2000

Mobility

Director's Notes | Focus | Safety | Mobility | Human and Natural Environment |
Economic Growth and Trade | National Security

Ensure that the transportation system is accessible, integrated and efficient, and offers flexibility of choices.

Volpe Participates in Institute of Navigation National Technical Meeting

Ms. Karen Van Dyke of the Center for Navigation participated in the Institute of Navigation National Technical Meeting held from January 26 to 28, 2000, in Anaheim, California. The theme of the meeting was "2000: Navigating into the New Millennium." The meeting covered a wide variety of Global Positioning System (GPS) applications and focused on the integration of navigation information in air, land, marine, and space systems. The meeting also covered issues pertaining to GPS integrity, Differential GPS (DGPS), navigation/communications integration, interference issues, and electronic charting.

Papers presented at this conference were related to a number of projects being conducted by the Center for Navigation. Ms. Van Dyke is conducting technical studies for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on GPS availability and integrity coverage and is supporting the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics Special Committee-159 in the development of the primary means GPS Minimum Operational Performance Standards for the GPS Wide Area and Local Area Augmentation Systems (WAAS/LAAS). She also is working on upgrading the Department of Defense's (DoD) Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) system to report GPS outages and is involved with the development of a GPS NOTAM system for Airservices Australia, DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung, and the Chilean Aviation Authority.

Ms. Van Dyke, as the Vice President of the Institute of Navigation (ION), also participated in the ION's Council Meeting that was held in conjunction with the conference.

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