background: injuries and accidents are one of the main problems in the present century. the purpose of this study was the identification and analysis of the characteristics of pre-hospital emergency motor vehicle accidents (mva) in rafsanjan, iran, in 2014. materials and methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was performed on all patients recorded by pre-hospital emergency during a per...

An ambulance or fire truck arriving a couple of seconds late can be the difference between life and death for some. As different technologies emerge, various approaches to expediting the movement of emergency vehicles have evolved. Horns, sirens and flashing lights were early attempts that are no longer sufficient in most places to clear traffic on the emergency vehicle’s route. In these situat...

Efficient and safe traffic control strategy for emergency vehicle can reduce its travel time and avoid secondary accident. Based on the analysis of its requirement and object, we proposed a novel control strategy at intersection according to the status of emergency vehicle, which can be divided into three parts: “approaching”, “passing “and “recovering”, Furthermore potential safety risk caused...

Vehicular traffic is endlessly increasing everywhere in the world and can cause terrible traffic congestion at intersections. Most of the traffic lights today feature a fixed green light sequence, therefore the green light sequence is determined without taking the presence of the emergency vehicles into account. Therefore, emergency vehicles such as ambulances, police cars, fire engines, etc. s...

Response time is currently considered to be an important performance indicator in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems. A number of factors may affect response times, including the location of emergency vehicles and the type of response system design used. This study aimed to assess the effects of emergency vehicle location and response system design on response time performance in a model ...

Abstract In this study, we developed a vehicle allocation model that can meet the requirements and cost best, data related to number of calls in each zone, variability required respond different types calls. First, several indicators are extracted quantify advantages station construction hierarchical analysis method TOPSIS used score then select stations need be built according score. Subsequen...