(1) Background: The purpose of this study is to identify emergency medical technicians’ perceptions of the most pressing issues that they experience when responding to motor vehicle collisions and record their opinions about what information is...
The automatic emergency braking (AEB) system plays a crucial role in reducing rear-end collisions and is mandatory on certain heavy-duty vehicles, with future regulations extending to passenger cars. However, most current AEB systems are designed bas...
Vehicular traffic is endlessly increasing everywhere in the world and can cause terrible traffic congestion at intersections. Most of the traffic lights today feature a fixed green light sequence, therefore the green light sequence is determined with...
Emergency Management System (EMS) is an important component of Intelligent transportation systems, and its primary objective is to send Emergency Vehicles (EVs) to the location of a reported incident. However, the increasing traffic in urban areas, e...
The novel coronavirus pandemic is a major global public health emergency, and has presented new challenges and requirements for the timely response and operational stability of emergency logistics that were required to address the major public health...
With the deployment of Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), new transport safety and efficiency applications are emerging. One of the fields where the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) is expected to bring great benefits, is...
Vehicle-to-vehicle communication is a promising paradigm that enables all vehicles in the traffic road to communicate with each other to enhance traffic performance and increase road safety. Through vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, vehicles ca...
In the event of a road accident, a quick intervention is crucial. The mobile emergency services take care of patients whose condition requires an emergency repatriation to a hospital, by land in an ambulance or by air in a helicopter. The main criter...
An autonomous vehicle (AV) uses high-level decision making and lower-level actuator controls, such as throttle (acceleration), braking (deceleration), and steering (change in lateral direction) to navigate through various types of road networks. Path...
Emergency vehicle transportation is important for responding to and transporting individuals during emergencies. This type of transportation faces several issues, such as road safety, navigation and communication, time-critical operations, resource u...
This paper proposes a dynamic right-of-way priority control approach for emergency vehicles (PDR-EVs) to improve their efficiency on basic road sections in the city based on a cooperative vehicle infrastructure system. Specifically, a movable physica...
With the rapid acceleration of urbanization and the increasing volume of road traffic, emergency vehicles frequently encounter congestion when performing urgent tasks. Failure to yield in a timely manner can result in the loss of critical rescue time...
IoT (Internet-of-Things)-powered devices can be exploited to connect vehicles to smart city infrastructure, allowing vehicles to share their intentions while retrieving contextual information about diverse aspects of urban viability. In this paper, w...
In recent years, the delivery of medical supplies has faced significant challenges due to natural disasters and recurrent public health emergencies. Addressing the need for improved logistics operations during such crises, this article presents an in...
Traffic congestion is a prevalent problem in modern civilizations worldwide, affecting both large cities and smaller communities. Emergency vehicles tend to group tightly together in these crowded scenarios, often masking one another. For traffic sur...
Safe driving and effective collision avoidance are critical challenges in the development of autonomous driving technology. As the dynamic interactions between vehicles and pedestrians become increasingly complex, making rational decisions and accura...
Over 100,000 all-terrain vehicle (ATV)-related injuries are evaluated in U.S. emergency departments each year. In this study, we analyzed the time intervals for emergency medical services (EMS) providers responding to ATV crashes in different locatio...
This study presents a novel approach to emergency vehicle classification that leverages a comprehensive set of informative audio features to distinguish between ambulance sirens, fire truck sirens, and traffic noise. A unique contribution lies in com...
The number of electric vehicles (EVs) is increasingly growing day by day and the charging infrastructure for covering this growing number of EVs should be developed. The construction of charging stations is one of the main solutions for supporting EV...
In this paper, by analyzing the heat and mass transfer characteristics of the dehumidification runner microelement channel of a drinking water emergency extraction vehicle, a mathematical model of heat and mass transfer in the water intake process is...
Wearable assistant devices play an important role in daily life for people with disabilities. Those who have hearing impairments may face dangers while walking or driving on the road. The major danger is their inability to hear warning sounds from ca...
This study aims to investigate the hysteresis characteristics of a pneumatic braking system for multi-axle heavy vehicles (MHVs). Hysteresis affects emergency braking performance severely. The fact that MHVs have a large size and complex structure le...
Unrecognized mechanical faults and emergency sounds in vehicles can compromise safety, particularly for individuals with hearing impairments and in sound-insulated or autonomous driving environments. As intelligent transportation systems (ITSs) evolv...
Unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) as unmanned intelligent devices can replace humans to perform missions more efficiently and safely in dangerous areas. However, due to the complex navigation environment and special mission requirements, USVs face man...
The transportation of emergency supplies is characterized by real-time, urgent, and non-contact, which constitute the basic guarantee for emergency rescue and disposal. To improve the yaw stability of the four-wheel-drive unmanned emergency supplies...
In the scenario of a natural or human-induced disaster, traditional communication infrastructure is often disrupted or even completely unavailable, making the employment of emergency wireless networks highly important. In this paper, we consider an i...
We performed Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling, and simulated a people evacuation process from a tunnel in the event of a fire, for evaluating the potentialities of using, as a temporary safety measure, an emergency vehicle equipped with a...
As the population increases, the number of motorized vehicles on the roads also increases. As the number of vehicles increases, traffic congestion occurs. Traffic lights are used at road junctions, intersections, pedestrian crossings, and other place...
An emergency can occur at any time. To overcome that emergency efficiently, we require seamless movement on the road to approach the destination within a limited time by using an Emergency Vehicle (EV). This paper proposes an emergency vehicle manage...
Numerous approaches have attempted to develop systems that more appropriately manage street crossings in cities in recent years. Solutions range from intelligent traffic lights to complex, centralized protocols that evaluate the policies that vehicle...
The rise in autonomous vehicles further impacts road networks and driving conditions over the road networks. Cameras and sensors allow these vehicles to gather the characteristics of their surrounding traffic. One crucial factor in this environment i...
Compared with the traditional operation mode of emergency vehicles, the mobile emergency vehicle is regarded as a new type of emergency facility carrier with the features of variable locations, flexible mobility, and intelligent decision-making. It c...
In this article, the development of a bat-ray-inspired underwater vehicle is presented; although the propulsion of the vehicle is based on traditional thrusters, the shape of the ray’s fins was used as a model to design the body of the vehicle;...
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) in networks is a communication technology that allows vehicles to communicate with their surroundings. Traffic congestion and unawareness of the travel of emergency vehicles (EVs) lead to delays in reaching the destination...
Environmental awareness and changing attitudes toward “green consumption” are becoming evident in emerging countries’ markets. Using an extended theory of planned behavior, this paper aims to examine emerging countries’ business students’ intentions...
Motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of life and property loss to society. Autonomous vehicles can mitigate the losses by making appropriate emergency decision, and the crash injury severity prediction model is the basis for autonomous vehicl...
Scheduling decisions for concurrent emergency response (CER) across multiple disaster sites presents numerous difficulties. The main challenge is to minimize human casualties while taking into account the rationality of resource allocation across dif...
Emergency braking detection plays a vital role in enhancing road safety by identifying potentially hazardous driving behaviors. While existing methods rely heavily on artificial intelligence and computationally intensive algorithms, this paper propos...
This study proposes a coordinated control strategy to solve the coupling problem between the multi-axle steering system and the active suspension system of emergency rescue vehicles. Firstly, an eleven-degree-of-freedom coupling model of an emergency...
The reasonable utilization of limited resources is critical to realize the sustainable developments. In the initial 72-h crucial rescue period after the disaster, emergency supplies have always been insufficient and the demands in the affected area h...
Focusing on safety, comfort and with an overall aim of the comprehensive improvement of a vision-based intelligent vehicle, a novel Advanced Emergency Braking System (AEBS) is proposed based on Nonlinear Model Predictive Algorithm. Considering the no...
Based on the requisition for an ideal precise power source for a hybrid electric emergency rescue vehicle (HE-ERV), we present an optimistic parameter matching and optimization schemes for the selection of a HE-ERV. Then, given a set of optimized pow...
Dual-motor electric drive tracked vehicles (DDTVs) have drawn much attention in the trends of hybridization and electrification for tracked vehicles. Their transmission chains differ significantly from the traditional ones. Due to the complication an...
Ego-vehicle state prediction represents a complex and challenging problem for self-driving and autonomous vehicles. Sensorial information and on-board cameras are used in perception-based solutions in order to understand the state of the vehicle and...
Emergency vehicle detection plays a critical role in ensuring timely responses and reducing accidents in modern urban environments. However, traditional methods that rely solely on visual cues face challenges, particularly in adverse conditions. The...
The importance of recycling end-of-life vehicles (ELVs) has been widely acknowledged as a means of reducing ELV waste to the environment. This reduced environmental waste contributes to achieving a number of UN SDGs, including the creation of sustain...
This paper investigates the problem of coordinated resource allocation for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to address the scarcity of communication resources in disaster-affected areas. UAVs carrying modules of free space optical (FSO) and r...
The expanding use of civilian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has brought forth a crucial need to address the safety risks they pose in the event of failure, especially when flying in populated areas. This paper reviews recent advancements in recover...
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 control strategies along the rescue route, EMVs may not be able to arrive...
Convoys composed of autonomous vehicles could improve the transportation and freight industries in several ways. One of the avenues of improvement is in fuel efficiency, where the vehicles maintain a close following distance to each other in order to...
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