Evacuations requiring large numbers of pedestrians to evacuate and potentially interact with vehicles are unique in the complexity of interactions that must be understood and in the potentially catastrophic consequences of poor management. On the pedestrian side alone, these events, which may result from a variety of causes including terrorist attacks, bomb threats, and building fires, require ...

The core idea of integrating the treatment of lane reversals and crossing elimination in evacuation network design is illustrated by the examples in Figure 1, which show how controlling lane entries and turning movements at intersections can create uninterrupted flow conditions for specific evacuation paths. The intersections must be expanded into subnetworks, as shown in Figure 2, to model an ...

A, utomatic vehicle following is an important feature of a fully rpartially automated highway system (AHS). The on-board vehicle control system should be able to accept and process inputs from the driver, the infrastructure, and other vehicles, perform diagnostics. and provide the appropriate commands to actuators so that the resulting motion of the vehicle is safe and compatible with the AHS o...

although there are remarkable differences in drivers’ behavior as well as vehicles characteristics, road capacity estimationmethods in developing countries are same as developed ones. so, the discrepancy between the theoretical andpractical values of capacity is inevitable. although, capacity estimation methods can be classified based on numerousparameters, in developing countries, the availabi...

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INTRODUCTION The number of accidents involving emergency vehicles is a major concern for emergency service providers. OBJECTIVES This study assessed the effectiveness of adding a driving simulator to a traditional training program. METHODS The sample consisted of students attending the National Emergency Medical Services Academy in Lafayette, Louisiana. Each participant self-scheduled two d...

Nowadays telemedicine applications are more and more present in the state-of-the-art medicine. Telemedicine is a good way to improve access to healthcare, quality of care, reduce isolation and also costs. In that way we can now safely perform surgery between two places separated by several thousand km, navigate in 3D models of blood vessels or generate 3D models from Nuclear-Magnetic Resonance ...

INTRODUCTION To describe the epidemiology and characteristics of emergency department (ED) visits by older adults for motor vehicle collisions (MVC) in the United States (U.S.). METHODS We analyzed ED visits for MVCs using data from the 2003-2007 National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS). Using U.S. Census data, we calculated annual incidence rates of driver or passenger MVC-r...

This study reports on a case study examining the impact of emergency vehicle preemption on closely spaced arterial traffic signals. The study was conducted on SR 26 a principal arterial and main thoroughfare connecting Interstate 65 with US 52 on the East side of Lafayette, Indiana. This study examined four coordinated intersections along SR 26 using seven preemption paths and three different t...