TY - GEN
T1 - Road reservation for fast and safe emergency vehicle response using ubiquitous sensor network
AU - Yoo, Jae Bong
AU - Kim, Jihie
AU - Park, Chan Young
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Transportation has been playing important role in our society by providing mobility for people, freight, and information. However, it cuts its own throat by causing car accidents and, traffic congestion, and air pollution. The main cause of these problems is a noticeable growth in the number of vehicles. The easiest way is to build new road infrastructures unless resources such as time, money, and space are limited. Therefore, there is a need to manage the existing road infrastructures effectively and safely. In this paper, we propose a road reservation scheme that provides fast and safe response for emergency vehicles using ubiquitous sensor network. Our idea is to allow emergency vehicles to reserve a road on a freeway for arriving to the scene of the accident quickly and safely. We also evaluate the performance by three reservation methods (No, Hop, and Full) to show that emergency vehicles such as ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars can rapidly and safely reach their destination. Simulation results show that the average speed of road reservation is about 1.09 ∼ 1.20 times faster than that of non-reservation at various flow rates. However, road reservation should consider the speed of the emergency vehicle and the road density of the emergency vehicle processing direction, as a result of Hop Reservation and Full Reservation performance comparison analysis. We confirm that road reservation can guarantee safety driving of emergency vehicles without reducing their speed and help to mitigate traffic congestion.
AB - Transportation has been playing important role in our society by providing mobility for people, freight, and information. However, it cuts its own throat by causing car accidents and, traffic congestion, and air pollution. The main cause of these problems is a noticeable growth in the number of vehicles. The easiest way is to build new road infrastructures unless resources such as time, money, and space are limited. Therefore, there is a need to manage the existing road infrastructures effectively and safely. In this paper, we propose a road reservation scheme that provides fast and safe response for emergency vehicles using ubiquitous sensor network. Our idea is to allow emergency vehicles to reserve a road on a freeway for arriving to the scene of the accident quickly and safely. We also evaluate the performance by three reservation methods (No, Hop, and Full) to show that emergency vehicles such as ambulances, fire trucks, and police cars can rapidly and safely reach their destination. Simulation results show that the average speed of road reservation is about 1.09 ∼ 1.20 times faster than that of non-reservation at various flow rates. However, road reservation should consider the speed of the emergency vehicle and the road density of the emergency vehicle processing direction, as a result of Hop Reservation and Full Reservation performance comparison analysis. We confirm that road reservation can guarantee safety driving of emergency vehicles without reducing their speed and help to mitigate traffic congestion.
KW - Emergency response
KW - Incident management
KW - Road reservation
KW - Ubiquitous sensor networks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77958578705&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SUTC.2010.67
DO - 10.1109/SUTC.2010.67
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77958578705
SN - 9780769540498
T3 - SUTC 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, UMC 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
SP - 353
EP - 358
BT - SUTC 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, UMC 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous, and Trustworthy Computing, SUTC 2010, 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing, UMC 2010
Y2 - 7 June 2010 through 9 June 2010
ER -