Every second counts: A comprehensive review of route optimization and priority control for urban emergency vehicles

Z Hao, Y Wang, X Yang - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play an important role in saving human lives and mitigating
property losses in urban traffic systems. Due to traffic congestion and improper priority …

State-of-the-art review on traffic control strategies for emergency vehicles

W Yu, W Bai, W Luan, L Qi - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emergency vehicles (EVs) play an essential role in emergency services. One of the most
intuitive indicators of the emergency service process is the response time of EVs. This …

Deep reinforcement learning for optimal rescue path planning in uncertain and complex urban pluvial flood scenarios

X Li, X Liang, X Wang, R Wang, L Shu, W Xu - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
An urban pluvial flood is a devastating, costly natural disaster requiring effective rescue path
planning to mitigate the loss of lives and property. The inherent uncertainty and complexity …

Enhancing emergency vehicle access in dense settlements of Mumbai using high-resolution satellite imagery: A deep learning approach

VK Singh, V Kumar - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2024 - Elsevier
Unplanned urbanization in develo** cities has led to haphazard development, increasing
disaster risks in densely populated areas. Despite being more disaster-prone, these dense …

CPT‐DF: Congestion Prediction on Toll‐Gates Using Deep Learning and Fuzzy Evaluation for Freeway Network in China

T Shi, P Wang, X Qi, J Yang, R He… - Journal of Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Toll‐gates are crucial points of management and key congestion bottleneck for the freeway.
In order to avoid traffic deterioration and alleviate traffic congestion in advance, it is …

Traffic Signal Control with Deep Q-Learning Network (DQN) Algorithm at Isolated Intersection

F Qi, R He, L Yan, J Yao, P Wang… - 2022 34th Chinese …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As traffic congestion in cities becomes severe, Intelligent Traffic Signal Control (ITSC) at the
isolated intersection has been actively researched and proven to be an effective solution to …

Model-free learning of corridor clearance: A near-term deployment perspective

D Suo, V Jayawardana, C Wu - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An emerging public health application of connected and automated vehicle (CAV)
technologies is to reduce response times of emergency medical service (EMS) by indirectly …

Real-time traffic impedance and priority based cooperative path planning mechanism for SOC-ITS: Efficiency and equilibrium

Y Liu, K Zhang, B Hou, Q Li, J Feng… - … Modelling Practice and …, 2023 - Elsevier
With the support of new information technologies such as the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) and
cloud computing, the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) has begun a new stage role as …

A Collaborative Control Framework: Achieving Emergency Vehicle Priority While Minimizing Negative Impact on Ordinary Vehicles at Signalized Intersection

K Long, Z Zhang, Z Gao, S Zhong… - Journal of Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
When an emergency vehicle (EV) passes through an isolated signal intersection, it is crucial
to ensure the efficient passage of the EV while minimizing the negative impact on ordinary …

[HTML][HTML] Preliminary Study on Cooperative Route Planning Reinforcement Learning with a Focus on Avoiding Intersection Congestion

S Katagiri, T Miwa, K Nishijima - Future Transportation, 2024 - mdpi.com
Intersection control systems have been actively studied in recent years as they could
potentially replace traffic signals via the utilization of the communication and automatic …