An onboard vehicle-to-vehicle multi-hop wireless networking system has been developed to test the realworld performance of telematics applications. The system targets emergency and safety messaging, traffic updates, audio/video streaming and commercial announcements. The test-bed includes a Differential GPS receiver, an IEEE 802.11a radio card modified to emulate the DSRC standard, a 1xRTT cell...

Vehicular ad-hoc Networks is to share the information between the vehicles through Vehicular Event Sharing with a mobile P2P Architecture (VESPA). The VESPA is used to distribute any type of event like parking spaces, accidents, emergency braking, etc and evaluating their relevance once received in order to determine, for instance, whether the driver should be warned or not. This paper deals wi...

This work deals with integration and transmission of safety information for smart railway vehicles and control and design of cooperative emergency brake systems for high speed trains. Due to increased speed of high-speed train, safety of passengers is becoming more critical. From this perspective, three different approaches to ensure the safety of passengers are useful. These approaches are bas...

Traffic is the chief puzzle problem which every country faces because of the enhancement in number of vehicles throughout the world, especially in large urban towns. Hence the need arises for simulating and optimizing traffic control algorithms to better accommodate this increasing demand. Fuzzy optimization deals with finding the values of input parameters of a complex simulated system which r...

Optimal deployment of limited emergency resources in a large-scale area is of interests to public agencies at all levels. In this paper, the problem of allocating limited emergency service vehicles including fire engines, fire trucks and ambulances among a set of candidate stations is formulated as a mixed integer linear programming model, in which the objective is to maximize the service cover...

A portable, 12-channel electrocardiogram (ECG) recorder is described. It weighs approximately 11 pounds, can be battery operated, and provides interpretation of the ECG tracing and a computer interface. It can be used in isolated environments, emergency vehicles, or a physician's office.

background india currently has the dubious distinction of experiencing the highest number of road traffic accidents in the world. objectives we believe that this study on road traffic accidents may help to identify factors in the pre-hospital setting that may influence mortality rates. patients and methods a prospective observational study was carried out in a metro area in india over a period ...

Due to the increasing number of traffic accidents involving the collisions of vehicles with the emergency-stop-area head walls in tunnels, a comparative numerical analysis in accordance with the EN 1317 standard has been performed in order to assess the quality of the available protective safety barriers. Based on the simulation results, the values of the relevant injury criteria - the accelera...

Imagine a future environment where networks of agents people, robots and software agents interact with sophisticated sensor grids and environmental actuators to provide advice, protection and aid. The systems will be integral to clothing, communications devices, vehicles, transportation systems, buildings, and pervasive in the environment. Vehicles and buildings could assist both their occupant...

eCall is an automatic in-vehicle emergency call service with the main objective is to reduce emergency response to reach an incident location (e.g. accident, crisis situation). When an incident occurs somewhere, the in-vehicle embedded device receives information from the sensors and calls the public safety answering point (PSAP) while sending the received information, such the location (GPS co...