The purpose of this research work is to improve the performance of Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) by reducing the number of in-network message transactions, and there by efficiently utilizing the bandwidth during an emergency situation. Bandwidth Efficient Acknowledgement based Multicasting protocol (BEAM) is proposed instead of the existing broadcasting protocol such as Acknowledged Broadca...

Pedestrian protection systems will become an essential safety function in future vehicles, as the EU governments will force automotive manufacturer to improve pedestrian safety within the next few years. For such systems the ability to recognise pedestrians is mandatory. Other applications like PreCrash or Automatic Emergency Break systems require a reliable tracking of vehicles close to the ow...

The paper presents the vehicles integrated monitoring system giving priorities for emergency vehicles. The described system exploits the data gathered by: geographical positioning systems and geographical information systems. The digital maps and roadside cameras provide the dispatchers with aims for in town ambulances traffic management. The method of vehicles positioning in the city network a...

Disasters like terrorist attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcano eruptions are usually unpredictable events that affect a high number of people. We propose an approach that can be used as a decision support tool for a post-disaster response that allows the assignment of victims to hospitals and organizes their transportation via emergency vehicles. Exploiting Operational Research and Cons...

The aim is to develop a robust methodology for dispatching and routing of emergency vehicles (EVs) in a post-disaster environment with the support of data fusion for decision-making. In this work we consider an earthquake scenario with a large number of casualties needing medical attention. With the influx of information (about the casualties, road and traffic conditions, etc.) data is fused to...

Vehicles are nowadays provided with a variety of new sensors capable of gathering information about themselves and from their surroundings. In a near future, these vehicles will also be capable of sharing all the harvested information, with the surrounding environment and among nearby vehicles over smart wireless links. They will also be able to connect with emergency services in case of accide...

The use and research of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) have been increasing over the years due to applicability in several operations such as search rescue, delivery, surveillance, others. Considering increased presence these vehicles airspace, it becomes necessary reflect on safety issues or failures that UAVs may appropriate action. Moreover, many missions, vehicle will not return its original...

using a hierarchical hybrid fuzzy model, this paper presents an intelligent system to manage the traffic of ambulances and the vehicles for transporting blood and blood products and generally the transportation related to health emergencies. the transportation of emergency patients, emergency accidents and health-related emergencies, and the transportation of blood and blood products should be ...

In this report, we present a methodology for assessing the benefits of different vehicle coordination strategies on the safety of a platoon during emergency braking. One can say that a coordinated braking strategy B is more beneficial than a strategy A, if strategy B leads to a larger reduction in the probability of a collision, the expected number of collisions, and the expected relative veloc...