- Title
- A smart priority-based traffic control system for emergency vehicles
- Creator
- Karmakar, Gour; Chowdhury, Abdullahi; Kamruzzaman, Joarder; Gondal, Iqbal
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/177130
- Identifier
- vital:15225
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2020.3023149
- Identifier
- ISBN:1530-437X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Unwanted events on roads, such as incidents and increased traffic jams, can cause human lives and economic loss. For efficient incident management, it is essential to send Emergency Vehicles (EVs) to the incident place as quickly as possible. To reduce incidence clearance time, several approaches exist to provide a clear pathway to EVs mainly fitted with RFID sensors in the urban areas. However, they neither assign priority to the EVs based on the type and severity of an incident nor consider the effect on other on-road traffic. To address this issue, in this paper, we introduce an Emergency Vehicle Priority System (EVPS) by determining the priority level of an EV based on the type and the severity of an incident, and estimating the number of necessary signal interventions while considering the impact of those interventions on the traffic in the roads surrounding the EV's travel path. We present how EVPS determines the priority code and a new algorithm to estimate the number of green signal interventions to attain the quickest incident response while concomitantly reducing impact on others. A simulation model is developed in Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) using the real traffic data of Melbourne, Australia, captured by various sensors. Results show that our system recommends appropriate number of intervention that can reduce emergency response time significantly. © 2001-2012 IEEE.
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- Relation
- IEEE Sensors Journal Vol. 21, no. 14 (2021), p. 15849-15858
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2020 IEEE.
- Subject
- 0205 Optical Physics; 0906 Electrical and Electronic Engineering; 0913 Mechanical Engineering; Emergency vehicle priority; Impact on other on-road traffics; Incident management system; Intelligent traffic system
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