Locating Intelligent Sensors on a Transportation Network to Facilitate Emergency Response to Traffic Incidents

Tejswaroop Geetla, Rajan Batta (), Alan Blatt, Marie Flanigan and Kevin Majka
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Tejswaroop Geetla: University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Rajan Batta: University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Alan Blatt: CUBRC
Marie Flanigan: CUBRC
Kevin Majka: CUBRC

Chapter 8 in Applications of Location Analysis, 2015, pp 191-222 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract According to the Federal Highways Administration (FHWA) study presented in Office of Highway Policy Information there are 254 million registered motor vehicles in the U.S. Each year this number continues to grow, increasing utilization of the road transportation network. In 2009 alone there were an estimated 2.2 million injuries related to traffic incidents and 33,808 fatalities from these injuries. In addition, traffic incident related fatalities ranked sixth in the list of preventable fatalities in the U.S.

Keywords: Global Position System; Road Segment; Data Fusion; Double Coverage; Intelligent Transportation System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20282-2_8

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