OBJECTIVES The objective of this regional study across Wales was to perform a preliminary examination of Welsh emergency vehicles to determine levels of bacterial contamination. METHODS Specific sites within emergency vehicles were swabbed, before and after vehicle cleaning, over a 12 month period, on a monthly basis. All swabs were sent to pathology laboratories for culturing and analysis. ...

Emergency Vehicle is one of the rescue resources in a city. It is important to ensure safe and rapid emergency operations in case of emergency calls. This paper presents a signal priority control strategy for emergency vehicle operations in urban roads. The preset plans are discussed first to provide an optimal route considering the one-way coordinated signal setting, which focuses on the green...

A route-based dynamic strategy is developed for efficient preemption of traffic signals for emergency vehicles in real time. The proposed method combines an on-line route selection module and a sequential dynamic preemption strategy, so that traffic queues at the intersections on a given emergency route can be cleared in advance for an emergency vehicle, while minimizing delay because of unnece...

Accomplishing an effective routing of emergency vehicle will minimize its response time and will thus improve the response performance. Traffic congestion is a critical problem in urban area that influences the travel time of vehicles. The aim of this study is developing a spatial decision support system (SDSS) for emergency vehicle routing. The proposed system is based on integration of geospa...

In this paper an emergency service vehicle (ESV) location problem has been considered in which it is assumed that each emergency call may require more than one ESV. In ESV location problem two factors should be known; the location of stations and the number of ESVs at each station. Hence, a nonlinear mixed integer programming model is presented in order to maximize the total response rate to th...

Emergency vehicles (ambulances, police cars and fire trucks) are deployed for rescuing people in an emergency. Crash statistics for Alberta, Canada indicate that more than 300 road traffic accidents every year involve at least one emergency vehicle. The aim of this study is to identify the factors that may have an influence on the probability of injury in crashes involving emergency vehicles in...

Traffic congestion worldwide has led to loss of human lives due to failure in transporting accident victims, critical patients, medical equipment and medicines on time. With the unending growth in vehicular traffic everywhere, Internet of Things (IOT) and Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) have embarked as a promising platform for an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS). Many researches h...

This paper explores the notion and usefulness of nonstationary velocity profiles for high priority emergency vehicle transit on automated highways. These profiles are intended for use in the link layer of the hierarchical control architecture defined by the California Partners for Automated Transit and Highways (PATH) program. A non-stationary velocity profile which can be used to circulate tra...