TITLE:
Dynamic Routing for Emergency Vehicle by Collecting Real-Time Road Conditions
AUTHORS:
Ryo Katsuma, Shin Yoshida
KEYWORDS:
Emergency Vehicle, Routing, Disaster, Vehicle ad-Hoc Networks
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.11 No.2,
February
28,
2018
ABSTRACT: When a natural disaster such as earthquake strikes, people go away to safety areas by cars. Some roads are broken and impenetrable by buildings falling down. Furthermore, some fixed infrastructures for radio communication may be broken. In order to quickly bring ambulances and fire trucks to their destinations, it is necessary to provide real-time road conditions to these emergency vehicles via ad-hoc networks. In this paper, we propose a method to periodically reconstruct a route for an emergency vehicle by collecting real-time road conditions via vehicle ad-hoc networks. As simulation results, we confirmed that the proposed method collects 12% more road conditions than existing method. We also confirmed that the proposed method achieves 10% faster arrival than the existing method.