Traffic management is the critical issue of the road. Traffic lights play an important role in the traffic management. The existing traffic lights follow the predetermined sequence. So these lights are called static traffic lights. These traffic lights are not capable to count the number of vehicles and the priority of the vehicles on intersection point. As a result some vehicles have to wait e...

VESPA (Vehicular Event Sharing with a mobile P2P Architecture) 1 is a system for enabling vehicles to share information in vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). The originality of VESPA is to process and disseminate any type of event (e.g., available parking spaces, accidents, emergency braking, information relative to the coordination of vehicles in emergency situations, etc.). The basic functio...

In the earlier days, vehicles such as Motorbikes hardly had Mechanical support in all concerns, in the recent past the development in Electronic devices in Motorbikes are evolving, with components such as E-breaks, Digital speedometers, etc. and most interesting from an engineering point of view, dealing with motorcycle dynamics is more complex than it is for four wheeled vehicles. In fourwheel...

Traffic Control on roads is the major problem in modern cities. Large amount of time and resources are exhausted during travelling because of traffic congestion.Identifying emergency vehicles and providing best path is also crucial for the success of any traffic management system. This paper proposed QoS Agent and implemented an integrated Linear Traffic Control Dynamic Model (LTCDM) by integra...

A Road Accident Prevention (RAP) scheme based on Vehicular Backbone Network (VBN) structure is proposed in this paper for Vehicular Ad-hoc Network (VANET). The RAP scheme attempts to prevent vehicles from highway road traffic accidents and thereby reduces death and injury rates. Once the possibility of an emergency situation (i.e. an accident) is predicted in advance, instantly RAP initiates a ...

Response time is currently considered to be an important performance indicator in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems. A number of factors may affect response times, including the location of emergency vehicles and the type of response system design used. This study aimed to assess the effects of emergency vehicle location and response system design on response time performance in a model ...

Tunnel safety can experience an innovative advance due to an increased awareness of dangerous goods vehicles and the monitoring of potentially dangerous overheated vehicles before the tunnel entrance. The overhead 3D vehicle classification system with laser scanners and conventional digital and infrared cameras enables the automatic generation of highly accurate and reliable data on risk bearin...

Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are increasingly used, both in military and civilian applications. These vehicles are limited mainly by the intelligence we give them and the life of their batteries. Research is active to extend vehicle autonomy in both aspects. Our intent is to give the vehicle the ability to adapt its behavior under different mission scenarios (emergency maneuvers versus...

Title of Document: INTEGRATED MANGEMENT OF EMEREGENCY VEHICLE FLEET Saini Yang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor Ali Haghani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering The growing public concerns for safety and the advances in traffic management systems, that have made the availability of real-time traffic information a reality, have created an opportunity to build integ...