A Traffic Chaos Reduction Approach for Emergency Scenarios

Rizvi, Syed R.; Olariu, Stephan; Rizvi, Mona; Weigle, Michele C.

doi:10.1109/pccc.2007.358943

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“…An approach to disseminate spatio-temporal traffic information in order to reduce chaos in evacuation scenarios using VANETs is presented in [8]. This work is further extended by the authors in [14] by exploiting WiFi and WiMAX to provide high end to end network connectivity and minimise network contention and interference.…”

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“…Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), sensor networks, social networks, Car-to-Car (C2C) and Car-to-Infrastructure (C2I) technologies are enabling transformational capabilities for transportation (see e.g. [7] and [8]). Our ability to monitor and manage transportation systems in real-time and at high granularities has grown tremendously due to sensor and vehicular network that generate huge amount of extremely useful data.…”

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A smart disaster management system for future cities

Alazawi

Alani

Abdljabar

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities

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Smart cities have recently become the mainstream approaches for urbanisation. Environmental, social and economic sustainability, digital inclusion and high quality of life are considered important elements in smart cities design. Emergency response system and resilience are among the most crucial dimensions of smart and future cities design due to the increase in various disruptions caused by frequent manmade and natural disasters such as September 2001 and Philippines Typhoon Haiyan 2013. Disasters cause great economic and human losses each year throughout the world. Transportations and Telecommunications play a crucial role in disaster response and management. Our research is focused on developing emergency response systems for disasters of various scales with a focus on transportation systems. We have proposed and evaluated a disaster management system that uses Intelligent Transportation Systems including Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), mobile and Cloud Computing technologies. In this paper, we report our recent work on two major evacuation strategies, Demand Strategies (DS) and Speed Strategies (SS), which provide better evacuation results in smart cities settings.

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A smart disaster management system for future cities

Alazawi

Alani

Abdljabar

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies for Smart Cities

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“…Examples are traffic information [8], road status [3], emergency messages [12], and weather data. In addition, various transaction-based services, such as information about gas prices, restaurant menus, and discount sales can be provided to users.…”

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Using RSUs as delegates for pervasive access to services in vehicle ad hoc networks

Mershad

Artail

2010

2010 17th International Conference on Telecommunications

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Vehicular ad hoc networks, also known as VANETs, enable vehicles which are not necessarily within the same radio transmission range to communicate with each other. In addition to allowing direct communication between vehicles, VANETs also enable vehicles to connect to Roadside Units (RSUs) which are inexpensive infrastructure that have the capability of communicating with each others and with passing by vehicles. RSUs have so far been used for various purposes such as information disseminators, traffic directories, security providers, and service directories that store information about service providers. In this paper, we propose a system that uses RSUs as delegates of users in a VANET to acquire services from service providers without the users directly connecting to them. Since some of these services may require user authentication with the corresponding service providers, the system implements a method for allowing RSUs to use the user's credentials to get the requested services without jeopardizing the user's privacy. We evaluated the performance of the proposed system using the ns2 simulation software and demonstrated through comparing the results to those of an existing system the feasibility and efficiency of the new system in terms of query delay and traffic generation.

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ICDMS: An Intelligent Cloud Based Disaster Management System for Vehicular Networks

Alazawi

Abdljabar

Altowaijri

et al. 2012

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The importance of emergency response systems cannot be overemphasized today due to the many manmade and natural disasters in the recent years such as September 2001 and the recent Japan earthquake and tsunami disaster. The overall cost of the Japan disaster alone is estimated to have exceeded 300 billion USD. Transportation and telecommunications play a critical role in disaster response and management in order to minimize loss of human life, economic cost and disruptions. Our research is concerned with developing emergency response systems for disasters of various scales with a focus on transportation systems, which exploit ICT developments.In this paper, we leverage Intelligent Transportation Systems including Vehicular Ad hoc Networks, mobile and Cloud Computing technologies to propose an intelligent disaster management system. The system is intelligent because it is able to gather information from multiple sources and locations, including from the point of incident, and is able to let vehicles make effective strategies and decisions of communication protocols usage. Hybrid vehicular communications based on vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure protocols are opportunistically exploited. The effectiveness of our system is demonstrated through modelling the impact of a disaster on a real city transport environment and comparing it with the case where our disaster management system was in place. We report great benefits derived from the adoption of our proposed system in terms of improved and balanced traffic flow and smooth evacuation.

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A Traffic Chaos Reduction Approach for Emergency Scenarios

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A smart disaster management system for future cities

A smart disaster management system for future cities

Using RSUs as delegates for pervasive access to services in vehicle ad hoc networks

ICDMS: An Intelligent Cloud Based Disaster Management System for Vehicular Networks

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