MARGAL Prototype Demonstration - Inland Waterways Applications Scenario Overview The MarGAL service is defined as “Dangerous goods and calamity abatement services” coherent with the definition of PIANC. The pilot within the MarGAL project demonstrated the applicability of local components for EGNOS implemented in a RIS system architecture for the provision of “Dangerous goods and calamity abatement services” in Day to Day (D2D) business and in case of a calamity. Within the project an exemplarily trial was executed within the current architecture and processes of the DISR in Hungary. The trial offers following opportunities: Demonstration of an End to End dangerous goods monitoring and calamity abatement service based on state of the art technologies Fully automated regular status reports from the ships to the dispatcher centre via AIS Language independent tracking & tracing of goods transport operations in real time on an Inland ECDIS chart on the vessels and in the dispatcher centre and on equipped ships Possibility to present the information also to third parties (fleet owners etc.) Interfacing to other transport systems which will induce multi/intermodal transportation Possibility for the introduction of software receivers which will give flexibility and possibility for lower prices, hence facilitates the transition towards Galileo for the terminal Introduction of the service differentiators to GPS of EGNOS (local integrity distribution and accuracy enhancement) and of Galileo (Integrity, Availability) as an inducement for a possible migration path to the next generation of River Information Services Support for VHF radio communication in case of incidents / accidents for all involved parties Involvement of potential future EGNOS and River Information Services - Service Providers and users from Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia within the pilot Clearly quantified benefits for the users thus giving first inputs to the commercial opportunities for future service providers Demonstrate infrastructure and user terminals for EGNOS integrity monitoring To demonstrate how integrity monitoring/broadcast can be linked to a practical use case Figure 1: architecture of the inland waterway trial and demonstration system