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https://doi.org/10.3141/2189-04

http://scholar.google.com...+Lee&publication_year=2010

Current and near-term technologies that support real-time emergency response to car crashes are described. A vision for emergency response and rescue as it might appear in 20 years under a fully integrated active transportation system (IATS) is provided. First, a baseline on which to build such a vision is established. Response to a single-casualty or multicasualty motor vehicle crash was selected as a specific use case. A systems approach was used to divide the emergency response process into individual functional steps. Key issues and desired capabilities are identified for each step. Technologies that fall into three categories—state of the practice, state of the art, and future art—are identified. The intent is to determine where research efforts might best be focused to make a generational leap in emergency response capabilities. A vision is described for the future of emergency response and rescue, which could be realized by 2030 as part of the planned IATS. Work is continuing to assess functional needs and potential future technologies (including cyberphysical systems), after which specific areas will be targeted for focused research and development.

01329017

10-2441

English

pp 26-36

2010

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309160636

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Emergency management; Emergency response time; Highway traffic control; Intelligent transportation systems; Real time information; Research; State of the art; Systems analysis; Technological innovations; Traffic crashes

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I73: Traffic Control; I80: Accident Studies

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 25 2010 11:09AM

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• Capability-Enhanced Probe Vehicle Surveillance System with Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications: Framework and Evaluation
• Driver and Vehicle Characteristics and Platoon and Traffic Flow Stability: Understanding the Relationship for Design and Assessment of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control
• Effects of In-Vehicle and Infrastructure-Based Collision Warnings to Nonviolating Drivers at Signalized Intersections
• Energy and Emission Benefit Comparison of Stationary and In-Vehicle Advanced Driving Alert Systems
• Evaluation of Real-Time Parking Information: Case Study of Isolated University Campus
• Intelligent Transportation System User Service Selection and Prioritization: Hybrid Model of Disjunctive Satisfying Method and Analytic Network Process
• Microscopic Traffic Simulation of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Hazard Alerts on Freeway
• Rural Variable Speed Limit System for Southeast Wyoming
• Simulation Model for Studying Impact of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Wireless Communications on Traffic Network Operations
• Use of Field Observations in Developing Collision-Avoidance System for Arterial Red Light Running: Factoring Headway and Vehicle-Following Characteristics