BACKGROUND Emergency service vehicle crashes (ESVCs) are a leading cause of death in the United States fire service. Risk management (RM) is a proactive process for identifying occupational risks and reducing hazards and unwanted events through an iterative process of scoping hazards, risk assessment, and implementing controls. We describe the process, outputs, and lessons learned from the appl...

CORRECTION After publication of the article [1], it has been brought to our attention that the second author's name was published incorrectly. Previously included as "Keshia P. Porter", the full and correct name should be "Keshia Pollack Porter". This has now been corrected in the original version of the article.

Covering a road network within a pre-specified time frame is the primary objective of any emergency service, including ambulances, firefighters and police. This research investigates the traffic police routine patrol vehicle assignment problem on an interurban road network. The difference between this and other emergency services is the need to consider additional requirements beyond the calls ...

To calculate many of the important performance measures for an emergency response system one requires knowledge of the probability that a particular server will respond to an incoming call at a particular location. Estimating these “dispatch probabilities” is complicated by four important characteristics of emergency service systems. We discuss these characteristics and extend previous approxim...

The IEEE 1609.4 for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environment (WAVE) network is designed to support both safety applications (e.g., emergency service) and non-safety applications (e.g., data service) for Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). The Wave operates on multi-channels consisting of one control channel (CCH) and 6 service channels (SCHs). In this paper, we propose and analyze a MAC pr...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine the reasons for long stays in monitoring units and to propose a solution. METHODS The patients who were followed in monitoring units of emergency service and the factors affecting the length of their hospital stay were analyzed retrospectively. Demographic features, their initial complaint that lead to monitoring, diagnosis, their means of arrival to e...

This article presents ongoing research on the initial development of a decision support system (DSS) framework for integrated emergency vehicle preemption and transit priority system investment planning. A conceptual intelligent DSS framework provides a holistic framework to perform analytical assessments of integrated emergency vehicle preemption and transit priority systems. Three analytical ...

periodic vehicle routing problem focuses on establishing a plan of visits to clients over a given time horizon so as to satisfy some service level while optimizing the routes used in each time period. this paper presents a new effective heuristic algorithm based on data mining tools for periodic vehicle routing problem (pvrp). the related results of proposed algorithm are compared with the resu...

Rational and efficient handling of vehicular traffic and people movement is already nowadays a huge challenge that increasingly needs to be supported by dedicated technologies. Scenarios like Smart Cities and Smart Roads are therefore among the most promising areas in which major technological breakthroughs are expected in the next two decades. The delivery of end user services in these scenari...

background: identification of the effective factors in reducing response time in prehospital emergency medical service (ems) can assist in improving its services. this study aimed at reviewing the effect of applying global positioning system (gps) on response time of tehran ems ambulances. materials and methods: of 132 tehran ems stations, 24 ones were randomly selected, and relevant data, incl...