Safe transport of the critically ill patient requires accurate assessment and stabilisation of the patient before transport. There should be appropriate planning of transport and optimum utilisation of communications. Safe transport requires the deployment of appropriately trained staff with essential equipment, and effective liaison between referring, transporting and receiving staff at a seni...

In this paper we introduce an agent-based framework which can be used in a dynamic transport planning environent. Incidents are managed at two levels: a tactical level and an operational level. Agents generating multi-vehicle plans belong to the tactical level, whereas agents operating vehicles belong to the operational level. Agents at both levels are equipped with incident management techniqu...

This paper describes a framework of QoS management for one-to-many multicast communications in the context of a new multicast transport protocol called the Enhanced Communication Transport Protocol (ECTP). ECTP is a transport protocol designed to support Internet multicast applications, such as audio and video, which is currently being standardised in ITU.T SG7. ECTP operates over IP networks t...

In our societies, in many areas of production and services quality management procedures are already well established. They became important elements of a successful business management. In traffic and transport such approaches to quality management came up only quite late with increasing privatization and market-orientation. Meanwhile, several instruments of quality management have been establ...