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The Road Reservation Scheme in Emergency Situation for Intelligent Transportation Systems

지능형 교통 시스템을 위한 긴급 상황에서의 도로 예약 방식

  • 유재봉 (한림대학교 유비쿼터스컴퓨팅학과 고속통신 연구실) ;
  • 박찬영 (한림대학교 유비쿼터스컴퓨팅학과 고속통신 연구실)
  • Received : 2011.09.25
  • Published : 2011.11.30
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Abstract

Transportation has been playing important role in our society by providing for people, freight, and information. However, it cuts its own throat by causing car accidents, traffic congestion, and air pollution. The main cause of these problems is a noticeable growth in the number of vehicles. The easiest way to mitigate these problems is to build new road infrastructures unless resources such as time, money, and space are limited. Therefore, there is a need to manage the existing road infrastructures effectively and safely. In this paper, we propose a road reservation scheme that provides fast and safe response for emergency vehicles using ubiquitous sensor network. Our idea is to allow emergency vehicle to reserve a road on a freeway for arriving to the scene of the accident quickly and safely. We evaluate the performance by three reservation method (No, Hop, and Full) to show that emergency vehicles such as ambulances, fire trucks, or police cars can rapidly and safely reach their destination. Simulation results show that the average speed of road reservation is about 1.09 ~ 1.20 times faster than that of non-reservation at various flow rates. However, road reservation should consider the speed of the emergency vehicle and the road density of the emergency vehicle processing direction, as a result of Hop Reservation and Full Reservation performance comparison analysis. We confirm that road reservation can guarantee safe driving of emergency vehicles without reducing their speed and help to mitigate traffic congestion.

운송은 우리 사회에서 사람들과 화물, 정보의 이동을 제공함으로서 중요한 역할을 해왔다. 하지만 교통사고와 교통 체증, 대기 오염 등을 유발하는 부정적인 면도 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제의 주원인은 차량 수의 급격한 증가에 있다. 이러한 문제들을 완화시키는 가장 쉬운 방법은 새로운 도로 기반 시설을 건설하는 것이지만, 시간과 비용, 공간 등과 같은 자원의 제약이 있다. 따라서 기존 도로 기반 시설을 효율적이고 안전하게 관리할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 유비쿼터스 센서 네트워크를 사용한 도로에서 긴급 차량 출동을 위한 빠르고 안전한 도로 예약 방식을 제안한다. 또한 앰블런스나 소방차, 경찰차와 같은 긴급차량들이 목적지에 빠르고 안전하게 도착할 수 있도록 세가지 예약 방법에 대한 비교분석을 하고 다양한 도로 상태에서 예약되지 않은 경우에 비해 예약을 한 경우 약 1.09 ~ 1.2 배 빠른 속도를 낼 수 있음을 시뮬레이션을 통해 보여준다. 도로 예약을 사용하는 경우 긴급차량의 속도를 줄이지 않으면서 안전하게 운행할 수 있으며, 교통 체증을 완화시키는 데도 도움을 줄 수 있음을 보인다.

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