In the event of a catastrophic or large scale event, demand for Emergency Medical Service (EMS) vehicles will almost certainly overwhelm the available supply. In such cases, it is necessary for cities to request aid (in the form of added capacity) from neighboring municipalities in order to bring the affected region back to its day-to-day levels of operation. In particular, we consider a region...

W hen a person suffers a heart attack, the best clinical outcomes are achieved when he or she is treated within two hours of the onset of acute symptoms. Yeatment benefits decline as further time elapses. Health care providers have instituted various communications and medical strategies to reduce the time between onset and treatment. Among these strategies arc patient education initiatives, sp...

To calculate many of the important performance measures for an emergency response system one requires knowledge of the probability that a particular server will respond to an incoming call at a particular location. Estimating these “dispatch probabilities” is complicated by four important characteristics of emergency service systems. We discuss these characteristics and extend previous approxim...

Slow moving traffic in heavily populated cities, can many times result in loss of lives due to emergency vehicles not being able to reach their destination hospitals on time. In this paper, we assume the usage of inter vehicular communication to optimize the lane level dynamics for an Emergency Vehicle Agent (EVA), traversing a multi lane stretch of road in an urban traffic setting. In particul...

This paper proposes an effective warning message forwarding scheme for cooperative collision avoidance. In an emergency situation, an emergency-detecting vehicle warns the neighbor vehicles via an emergency warning message. Since the transmission range is limited, the warning message is broadcast in a multihop manner. Broadcast packets lead two challenges to forward the warning message in the v...

Traffic flow systems are nonlinear and uncertain, so it is very difficult to find their optimal points. In traditional traffic control systems, the traffic lights of crossings change in a fixed time period that is not optimal. On the other hand, most proposed systems are sufficiently capable of coping with the uncertainties of traffic flow. To solve this problem, there is a need to develop expe...

Introduction The impending widespread deployment of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) has created an opportunity for multimedia communication not only as part of vehicle safety provision, traffic management, and emergency response but also in the value-added ‘infotainment’ domain. The key feature of video distribution to the passengers of vehicles or crew members of emergency vehicles in the V...