Title Emergency Management System for Transportation Accidents (the third year of 4-year period) - Road Transportation Accident Rescue Assistant Information System and Call-for-Help Supporting System
Dept Transportation Energy and Environment Division
Year 2006
Month
Price
Summary Due to the heavy traffic volumes on intercity highways and important urban roadways in Taiwan, traffic accidents usually occurred. Hence lots of social and economy costs were incurred. For instance, once an accident occurs in a closed roadway system, like freeway, with heavy traffic volumes. If rescuers cannot be informed immediately and go to the scene quickly, it usually results in serious traffic congestion and affects travel safety and efficiency of the roadway. Therefore, if ITS-related technologies can be applied and developed, we can build up a national level emergency management system for traffic accidents. The system is designed to efficiently detect and verify the occurrence of an accident, locate it, and retrieve relevant information of the emergent accident. The system would respond by dispatching emergency rescue fleet to the scene in a very short time, cleaning the spot, and recovering traffic congestions. For the improvement of roadway traffic safety and efficiency, this system could bring benefit as well as achieve the transportation goal of ITS.
  This project is the third year of a four-year program. The first year's project studied detection technologies for traffic incidents, and built up the incident-reporting information system architecture among and within various rescue institutions. Through technology investigation and system planning, the first year's study intended to shorten the detection and reporting time after incident occurrence. The second year's project focused on the rescue fleet management system and the route guidance system for rescue vehicles. It was expected that through application of advanced fleet management and route guidance system, rescue vehicles could reach the incident sites more quickly. Furthermore, the second year project reviewed and amended the EMS architecture and standards developed in the first year.
  This year, the project focuses on developing traffic incident rescue assistant information system and call-for-help supporting system according to the needs of practicing EMS. Thus, this study reviews and amends the system architecture and standards developed in the passed two years. In addition, the research team executes a pilot project to testify the performance of the proposed system. With an efficient EMS for incident rescue, it is hoped that traffic safety and roadway efficiency could be enhanced, and the ITS industry could be activated in Taiwan as well.
Post date 2006/12/18
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