In this paper, we are interested in routing vehicles to service large-scale emergencies, such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks. We describe the specifics of routing vehicles in a large-scale emergency and decompose the problem into two stages: a planning stage and an operational stage. In the planning stage, we aim to generate the routes well in advance of any emergencies; in the oper...

In this paper, we propose a new approach, called RoadGuard, for Highway Control and Management System. RoadGuard is based on counting and tracking moving vehicles robustly. Our system copes with some challenges related to such application processing steps like shadow, ghost and occlusion. A new algorithm is proposed to detect and remove cast shadow. The occlusion and ghost problems are resolved...

FOR MOST LAW ENFORCEMENT AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AGENCIES, THE costs related to the purchasing, equipping, operating and maintaining of fleets is the largest single recurring cost, outside that of personnel. The cost of acquiring vehicles, the costs associated with equipping and maintaining these vehicles, and escalating fuel costs have created difficulties for many departments— including police...

In Inter-Vehicular Adhoc Network (IVAN) does not have a fixed network topology but is highly dynamic. The topology of the network changes frequently because wireless links are established and broken down due to certain factors such as the velocity of the vehicles, their mobility patterns and their spatial density. These high dynamics also cause very short times for data transfer. This paper pre...

Inter-vehicle networking has been proved to be an efficient and enabling system for the enhancement of road safety. With the help of inter-vehicle networking, a driver can be notified with a warning message for a traffic jam or collision in a real-time mode, and thus, take a positive action promptly to avoid entering jam areas or multiple-vehicle collisions. In this paper, we study the performa...

Emergency situations require reliable broadband communications systems which are able to transmit relevant information from the disaster site to the decision makers and send feedback to first responders regarding potential dangers or decisions. A key factor in designing a robust communications system with applications to emergency response is the development of a quick, easily deployable and mo...

By using a simplified two-lane cellular automata model for traffic flow, we simulate an evacuation of an emergency vehicle (EV) in highways. We introduce the pull over strategy to facilitate the evacuation of the EV in highways. We demonstrate numerically that this pulling over of cars promotes a faster moving of the EV in traffic flow and minimize the EV's impact on the overall traffic. Emerge...

This paper presents an emergency vehicle priority control system based on connected technology, called MMITSS priority. Traditional preemption does not consider the effect of current traffic situation, such as presence a freight in dilemma zone, opposing movement and can have significant negative impact minor movements vehicles. A mixed integer linear programming model is developed which reques...