This paper introduces a vehicle guidance control architecture capable of autonomously resolving emergency situations due to steering system failure. situation requires safe stop in the lane by means differential braking. The proposed approach is based on three-level hierarchical composed, from highest lowest, reference generation, control, and allocation level. generation function computes traj...

We present an ongoing project aimed to support the management of the procedures, mainly the handling of emergency calls, for the centralized regional emergency management agency (Protezione Civile Regionale in Italian). The main goal consists in enabling the sharing of information among different active locations that are in charge of acting in any emergency which occurs on the territory. We pr...

iii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report describes a field study that was performed to provide better information about how warning lamps for emergency vehicles affect the vision and driving performance of surrounding drivers, with special emphasis on understanding any ways in which those lamps might have negative effects on safety. The situations of most concern for this study are those in which an e...

Emergency response systems in urban areas should be located in such a way to ensure adequate coverage as well as a rapid response time. We developed a model for locating emergency vehicles on urban networks based on a generalization of the Hypercube Queuing Model. The proposed model considers spatial and temporal characteristics of demand such as the possibility that a server is not always avai...

Some important issues in the design of an efficient pharmaceutical supply chain involve deciding where to place the warehouses/inventories and how to route distribution vehicles. Solving appropriate facility location and vehicle routing problems can ensure the design of a logistic network capable of rapid distribution of medical supplies. In particular, both these problems must be solved in coo...

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) are expected to be used for the dissemination of emergency warning messages on the roads. The emergency warning messages such as post crash warning notification would require an efficient multi hop broadcast scheme to notify all the vehicles within a particular area about the emergency. Such emergency warning applications have low delay and transmission overhe...

The approaching deadline for eCall service implementation for new cars in 2018, raises a series of technical and logistic issues. The eCall service, part of iCar initiative, aims to reduce the road fatalities and severity injured person reduction, for post-crash situations. The eCall service consists into an In Vehicle System (IVS), which will be delivered mandatory on new cars, starting with 2...