The role of ITS in evacuation route optimization for emergency vehicles

Polimeni, Antonio; Vitetta, Antonino

doi:10.2495/risk120431

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“…In the case of transport systems in emergency conditions, the NDP refers to the road transport system because transit transport vehicles are used and designed in emergency with VRP (vehicle routing problem) procedures reported in other papers, i.e. [12], [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

Risk Reduction in Transport System in Emergency Conditions: A Framework for Network Design Problems

Vitetta

2021

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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In emergency conditions, with dangerous events with effects delayed in the time, the transport supply requires configurations that allow the reduction of the negative effects on people. Therefore, it is necessary to define suitable design methodologies for risk reduction. In the context of the wider problem of the transport demand managing in all its components, this paper reports the problem for the road network design in transport systems. The problem analysed considers the design of the link directions and the traffic light regulation at the junction in the road networks for users and emergency vehicles. The paper: reports a state of the art of the problem; introduces a general framework; formulates the problem in terms of aggregate mathematical models. For further information on the topics reported, the literature cited can be considered.

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Section: State Of the Artmentioning

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Risk Reduction in Transport System in Emergency Conditions: A Framework for Network Design Problems

Vitetta

2021

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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“…A large literature describes experiences connected to urban traffic monitoring. The traffic flow measures by means of monitoring techniques belong to two classes [5,6]:  measures at fixed points of the network with tools like loop detectors and image processing [7];  measures with floating cars [8] in the network (individual cars, taxis, transit system vehicles). In the information field, Maerivoet et al [9] propose a system able to capture the user behavioural giving information related to the travel cost variations, while in [10] is analysed the impact of user information in path choice.…”

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“…In [11] a probe vehicle equipped with a personal digital assistant and GPS antenna provided the link travel time. The survey is based on hardware/software devices [5,6] able to capture the current traffic conditions on the networks.…”

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“…Existing within-day DTA models may be employed according to approaches: non-equilibrium or equilibrium. A description of the two approaches is reported in [5,6,16,25]. In the case of an equilibrium approach, an iterative process is necessary to find the dynamic equilibrium solution, based on three algorithms [25]: i) an algorithm which calculates route travel times (network loading); ii) a shortest path algorithm which calculates k shortest path and updates path choice set; iii) an algorithm which provides assignment of vehicles to paths in order to simulate the dynamic equilibrium.…”

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Simulation, design and structure of ITS models for supporting evacuation in smart cities

Maio¹,

Musolino²,

Polimeni³

et al. 2013

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Many technologies have been developed to assist mobility in a smart city; however, there is a lack of models to support the technology. In this paper, a framework is proposed to integrate a model system into an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) environment. The framework allows us to integrate the information provided by the technology in order to configure the transport network. Models considered are both simulation models (i.e. assignment) and design models (vehicle routing). This framework could be applied to support managing evacuation operations in a city.

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“…These activities can be classified into homogeneous classes in terms of execution time and decision-maker of single activities: activities related to material infrastructures (e. g. interventions on physical characteristics); non-material activities (e. g. interventions on learning and training or on Intelligent Transportation Systems) ( [14,15]); activities related to equipment (e. g. interventions to acquire tools and specific transport means); management activities (e.g. interventions to design transportation services) [16][17][18][19][20]; governance and institutional activities (e.g.…”

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Civil risk manager at European level

Russo¹,

Rindone²

2013

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The purpose of this paper is to propose a standard process for training and certification to identify at European level a civil risk manager, with a common background.An analysis of possible training and education activities in emergency planning at an international level is shown. Among preparedness activities, in this paper we consider activities that contribute to reducing the exposure risk components. The dangerous goods transportation risk is considered as a reference case, analyzing standard training and the certification process introduced by the United Nations and adopted at an international level. The experiences of the USA, the EU and Italy, in the context of civil risk training, are reported.It is possible to reduce the exposure risk component implementing training activity to increase the capability of subjects involved in emergency conditions. Experiences of the USA and the EU relative to training constitute different attempts to certificate training in emergency planning. However, there is a lack of international standards to certificate a professional expert that can manage disaster in a standard way. It is possible to introduce training and certification for an EU civil risk manager adopting the United Nations' model concerning dangerous goods transportation.In this paper, the necessity to implement training activities at different levels to reduce risk is highlighted. A possible trend of a risk level function depending on training activities' implementation at the time is proposed. However, in further studies, the function could be specified and calibrated referring to a model and specific surveys.This study, in the context of analysis related to the standardization process in emergency planning, is the first proposal, to the authors' knowledge, into the

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The role of ITS in evacuation route optimization for emergency vehicles

Cited by 4 publications

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Risk Reduction in Transport System in Emergency Conditions: A Framework for Network Design Problems

Risk Reduction in Transport System in Emergency Conditions: A Framework for Network Design Problems

Simulation, design and structure of ITS models for supporting evacuation in smart cities

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