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http://dx.doi.org/10.12815/kits.2012.11.5.027

Applicability of Emergency Preemption Signal Control under UTIS  

Park, Soon-Yong (단국대학교 토목환경공학과)
Kim, Dong-Nyong (단국대학교 토목환경공학과)
Kim, Myung-Soo (국립한밭대학교 도시공학과)
Lee, Jung-Beom (대전발전연구원)
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The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.11, no.5, 2012 , pp. 27-37 More about this Journal
Abstract
Even thought the firefighters have to hurry to the scene to extinguish the blaze, the fire engines could not rushed out due to the worst of traffic condition. Traffic signal control is one of the most important methods to minimize the fire engines's travel time. The focus of this paper is to develop a traffic control strategy, which is emergency vehicle preemption algorithm considering pedestrian in order to reduce travel time of emergency vehicle. This algorithm also includes recovering strategy after preemption signal to minimize the other vehicle's delay. In order to estimate the effectiveness of traffic control, traffic simulation was performed using VISSIM micro simulation tool for two different kinds of networks, which were non-coordinated corridor and coordinated corridor. The differences of travel time and average delay between emergency vehicle and ordinary vehicle were respectively estimated under pre-existed pretimed signal and preemption traffic control at two respective networks. The results of the simulation for the emergency vehicle, travel time was reduced to 36.8~43.3% under "Add or Subtract" method whereas it was reduced to 30.7~46.0% under "Dwell" method. In addition, in non-coordinated corridor case of ordinary vehicle, average control delay of "Dwell" method was increased 33.5% whereas it grew 0.5% under coordinated corridor. And "Add or Subtract" method was confirmed that average control delay of ordinary vehicle was increased 0.7% under non-coordinated corridor whereas it swelled 4.5% under coordinated corridor.
Keywords
Preemption; Emergency Vehicle; Transition; Signal Strategy;
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