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 …

A systematic review of route optimisation and pre-emption methods for emergency vehicles

S Humagain, R Sinha, E Lai, P Ranjitkar - Transport reviews, 2020‏ - Taylor & Francis
Reducing the travel time of emergency vehicles (EVs) is an effective way to improve critical
services such as ambulance, fire, and police. Route optimisation and pre-emption are …

A novel internet of things-enabled accident detection and reporting system for smart city environments

F Bhatti, MA Shah, C Maple, SU Islam - sensors, 2019‏ - mdpi.com
Internet of Things-enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are gaining significant
attention in academic literature and industry, and are seen as a solution to enhancing road …

Reduction of environmental impact from road transport using analysis and simulation methods

V Mavrin, K Magdin, V Shepelev, I Danilov - Transportation Research …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Road transport is one of the main sources of atmospheric pollution in urbanized areas. The
volume of emissions from road transport has been increasing starting from 2013. This is …

Controllable path planning and traffic scheduling for emergency services in the internet of vehicles

VL Nguyen, RH Hwang, PC Lin - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Dispatching emergency vehicles (EVs) to fatal accidents or fires as fast as possible is vital to
save lives; however, minimizing an EV's travel time to the rescue spot is still an open …

Performance measurement evaluation framework and Co-Benefit\/Tradeoff analysis for connected and automated vehicles (cav) applications: A survey

D Tian, G Wu, K Boriboonsomsin… - IEEE Intelligent …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A number of Connected and/or Automated Vehicle (CAV) applications have recently been
designed to improve the performance of our transportation system. Safety, mobility and …

[PDF][PDF] A survey on emergency vehicle preemption methods based on routing and scheduling

SJ Kamble, MR Kounte - International Journal of Computer Networks …, 2022‏ - academia.edu
Emergency Vehicles (EVs) play a significant role in saving human lives and property
damages. Reducing the time delay of emergency vehicles is important to enhance …

MPC-based emergency vehicle-centered multi-intersection traffic control

M Hosseinzadeh, B Sinopoli… - … on Control Systems …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a traffic control scheme to alleviate traffic congestion in a network of
interconnected signaled lanes/roads. The proposed scheme is emergency vehicle-centered …

Smart ambulance system using IoT

O Udawant, N Thombare, D Chauhan… - … conference on big …, 2017‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traffic jams is one of the crucial issue in India due to which ambulance services get affected
on large amount, due to delay in ambulance service, patient may lose his life and number of …

Learning to help emergency vehicles arrive faster: A cooperative vehicle-road scheduling approach

L Ding, D Zhao, Z Wang, G Wang, C Tan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-increasing heavy traffic congestion potentially impedes the accessibility of
emergency vehicles (EVs), resulting in detrimental impacts on critical services and even …