Study on feasibility of SATCOM for railway communication

Final Report
For each group of stakeholders, a number of companies and individuals were identified and contacted.
Examples of respondents are shown in Table 24.
Group Respondents Total invited
SATCOM
Railway
communications and
communications
service providers
(RAIL)
Airbus, Comtech, Govsat, Hispasat, iDirect,
Inmarsat, Intelsat, Iridium, Newtec,
SpaceCom A/S
Adif, Alstom, Ansaldo, Avanti, Bane Danmark,
Deutsche Bahn, Funkwerk Systems,
Kapsch CarrierCom, Nokia, Land Transport
Chamber of Commerce, ÖBB Infra, PKP
Cargo, ProRail, SNCF, Talgo, Trafikverket,
UIC Future Railway Mobile Communications
System, including Orange, Infrabell, Systra
and SBB.
16
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Table 24: Targeted stakeholders: examples of respondents
When multiple responses were obtained from a single response per company/organisation, a single
one was considered, in order not to bias the results.
7.1.2 Survey questions
The full set of questions in the Survey can be found in Annex §B, and were categorised in several
groups:
Trends and new developments
Operational issues
QoS performances
GSM-R evolution framework
Use of SATCOM for business applications
7.1.3 Survey presentation
Responses to the Survey were gathered from a Word questionnaire, as well as from an online form.
The Word questionnaire is included in Annex §B, and was common to all targeted stakeholders.
As for the online channel, the tool of choice was Typeform (www.typeform.com), a freemium offering
that features very simple administration and setup, extremely easy-to-follow surveys with full mobile
support, and comprehensive analytics. The following figures show some examples of the survey
design as it was presented to the users.
Doc.Nº: SRAIL-FNR-010-IND
Edit./Rev.: 1/1
Date: 16/02/2017
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