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In an era of continuous growth in mobility and demand for transportation, safety is an issue of major social concern and an area of extensive research and work by practitioners and academics. Emergency response services are very important in handling and minimizing the impacts of traffic accidents and for saving human lives. In this paper, we develop an efficient emergency response plan for responding to traffic accidents; the objective is to strategically deploy emergency response vehicles in a large urban transportation network. We combine a location model with a genetic algorithm and guide location decisions through accident metrics such as accident frequencies and severity at different parts of the network. We demonstrate the usefulness and applicability of the approach by planning for a real-world case study in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece.

01329018

11-2440

English

18p

2011

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures (6) ; References (43) ; Tables (2)

Disasters and emergency operations; Emergency trips; Emergency vehicles; Genetic algorithms; Highway safety; Location theory; Mathematical models; Network analysis (Planning); Traffic crashes

Thessaloniki (Greece)

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I80: Accident Studies

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2011 Paper #11-2440

TRIS, TRB

Feb 17 2011 6:10PM