The WINS Business Proposal for Fleet & Freight Management

Marco Falcone

Abstract:	The World Intermodal Navigation Service (WINS) has been designed to provide a complete fleet and freight management service to all the companies that intend to offer a low cost and effective logistics system (i.e. fast, reliable, safe and easy). The basic idea of the system is not just to track and trace transport vehicles, but the assets transported in a global way and across different means of transport (i.e. intermodal through road, railway and sea). WINS delivers quasi-real-time positioning and status information of any high value freight or freight element at any level of the freight nesting hierarchy (from transport vehicle down to containers, pallets or single assets transported) on customer request. In addition to reviewing published market figures the WINS team discussed the market and associated business case with potential distributors, dealers, sales representatives, customers, and competitors confirming the need for adequate logistic tools for fleet management and tracking of goods. The WINS infrastructure features a revenuesgenerating payload on-board a constellation of at least 18 spacecraft each with an integrated navigation/communication payload specifically designed to support this service. WINS could be implemented based on the GPS IIF or GalileoSat or whatever other navigation constellation. The WINS concept has been designed by an integrated product team of thirteen international professionals from several different organisations in Europe (CNES, DASA, DLR, EUMETSAT, ESA, Kayser-Threde, MAN Technology) participating in a Master in Space Systems Engineering at Toptech Studies (Delft, The Netherlands).
Published in:	Proceedings of the 13th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 2000) September 19 - 22, 2000 Salt Palace Convention Center Salt Lake City, UT
Pages:	2391 - 2397
Cite this article:	Falcone, Marco, "The WINS Business Proposal for Fleet & Freight Management," Proceedings of the 13th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 2000), Salt Lake City, UT, September 2000, pp. 2391-2397.
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