Weather events have the ability to cause disruption to the road networks, both by making roads impassable, and by leading to a deterioration in safe driving conditions. Heavy snows in the winters of 2009 and 2010, as well as extreme flooding in 2011 and 2015, have demonstrated the ability of weather events to impact transport services and mobility. Within an Irish context there is very little r...

BACKGROUND A major incident is defined as an event that owing to the number of casualties has the potential to overwhelm the available resources. This paper attempts to describe the incidence and epidemiology of major incidents dealt with by a government-run emergency medical service (EMS) in the Punjab province of Pakistan, a developing country in South Asia. A major incident in this EMS is de...

Safety on roads is of uttermost importance, especially in the context autonomous vehicles. A critical need to detect and communicate disruptive incidents early effectively. In this paper we propose a system based an off-the-shelf deep neural network architecture that able recognize types unsigned (non-placarded, such as traffic signs), physical (visible images) road incidents. We develop taxono...

We introduce NOTICE, a secure, privacy-aware architecture for the notification of traffic incidents. Using sensor belts embedded in the roadway, traffic-related messages and advisories are carried between belts by passing cars. NOTICE moves the responsibility for making decisions about trafficrelated information dissemination to the infrastructure rather than leaving those decisions with the ve...

BACKGROUND Major incidents put pressure on any health system. There are currently no studies describing the epidemiology of major incidents in South Africa (SA). The lack of data makes planning for major incidents and exercising of major incident plans difficult. OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of major incidents in the Western Cape Province, SA. METHODS A retrospective analysis of t...

The response to a potential disaster can require the evacuation of personnel from a specified area. Generally, such efforts are restricted to the orderly mass departure of individuals across pre-planned and well maintained transportation routes. In the U.S., evacuations of up to 1,000 subjects take place every two to three weeks, with more extreme evacuations involving two million or more every...