LORAN-C FEASIBILITY DEMONSTRATION PLAN

The report sets forth the following objectives of demonstrating terrestrial applications of LORAN-C, a radio navigation system, operated and maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard to determine the: (a) need for and costs of calibrating and of converting LORAN-C time difference values to other site location forms; (b) control display requirements as a function of system application; (c) costs and problems involved in training users; (d) steps required to implement a LORAN-C system in each of the application areas; (e) operational difficulties and to (f) document costs of implementation of a LORAN-C system. The report details demonstration scope, fiscal, temporal, evaluative criteria, and manpower requirements. Applications to be demonstrated are among those detailed in preceding report under this contract entitled, 'LORAN-C Conceptual Analysis.' Applications are distributed in three major categories: Automatic Vehicle Monitoring (AMV), Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) or Dispatch, and Site Registration.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with Polhemus Navigation Sciences, Inc., Burlington, Vt.
• Corporate Authors:

  New York State Department of Motor Vehicles

  Governor Nelson A Rockefeller Empire State Plaza
  Albany, NY  United States  12228

  Polhemus Navigation Sciences, Incorporated

  Burlington, VT  United States 

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1976-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 45 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic tracking; Automatic vehicle monitoring; Centralized traffic control; Costs; Dispatching; Education; Feasibility analysis; Ground vehicles; Implementation; Location; Loran; Monitoring; Position fixing; Urban transportation
• Old TRIS Terms: Centralized control
• Subject Areas: Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Research; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00147302
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-HS-802-057 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: DOT-HS-5-01234
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 15 1981 12:00AM