Hazardous Materials transportation risk mitigation may be achieved by reducing the accident probability and alleviating the associated potential consequences. The consideration of risk as a criterion for selecting Hazardous Materials distribution routes contributes substantially to the reduction of accident probability and the severity of the accident consequences. Furthermore the optimum deplo...

Urban rail transit brings huge economic and social benefits to the society, however, the event of accidents and breakdown of subway can cause a wide range of traffic impact, significant personal and economic losses and even cause traffic paralysis. Current domestic emergency dispatch and command model is basically "man-based", therefore the validity and effectiveness of emergency scheduling dec...

In this paper an advancement on the SICURO Research Project relating to the design of path choice models for emergency vehicles is proposed. In particular, with respect to the previous work in which the procedures to be planned and activated in emergency conditions were defined in order to allow the evacuation of weak users (the disabled, senior citizens, etc.) from the area affected by a disas...

AIM OF THE STUDY Quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a critical determinant of outcome following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The aim of our study was to evaluate the quality of CPR provided by emergency medical service providers (Basic Life Support (BLS) capability) and emergency medical service providers assisted by paramedics, nurse anesthetists or physician-manned ambulance...

eCall is an automatic in-vehicle emergency call service with the main objective is to reduce emergency response to reach an incident location (e.g. accident, crisis situation). When an incident occurs somewhere, the in-vehicle embedded device receives information from the sensors and calls the public safety answering point (PSAP) while sending the received information, such the location (GPS co...

OBJECTIVES We analysed near-miss and injury events reported to the National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System (NFFNMRS) to investigate the workplace hazards and safety concerns of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responders in the USA. METHODS We reviewed 769 'non-fire emergency event' reports from the NFFNMRS using a mixed methods approach. We identified 185 emergency medical calls and...

A route-based signal preemption strategy is developed to provide the most efficient and safe route for an emergency vehicle under a given network and traffic conditions. It combines an on-line route selection procedure and a dynamic sequential preemption method. The on-line route selection module first quantifies the level of congestion for each link on a given network using a congestion index ...

Click It or Ticket is a national campaign coordinated annually by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to increase the proper use of seat belts. In 2014, more than 21,000 passenger vehicle occupants died in motor vehicle crashes in the United States; 49% were unrestrained at the time of the crash (1). An additional 2.4 million occupants (restrained and unrestrained) were treated i...

A project concerned with applying Dynamic Data Driven Application Simulations (DDDAS) to monitor and manage surface transportation systems is described. Building upon activities such as the Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration initiative, a hierarchical DDDAS architecture is presented that includes coupled in-vehicle, roadside, and traffic management center simulations. The overall architecture i...