EVACUATION MODEL FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES IN HIGHWAYS

Najem Moussa ()
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Najem Moussa: Département de Mathématique et Informatique, Faculté des Sciences, B. P. 20 - 24000 - El Jadida, Morocco

International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), 2009, vol. 20, issue 01, 59-69

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a cellular automaton model for the evacuation of an emergency vehicle (EV) in highways. To facilitate the evacuation of the EV, some additional lane-changing rules (pull over of ordinary vehicles) are introduced in a two-lane cellular automata model for traffic flow in highway. We find that this pulling over of ordinary vehicles promotes a faster moving of the EV in traffic flow and minimize the EV's impact on the overall traffic.

Keywords: Traffic; cellular automata; emergency vehicle; pull over; arrival times; 45.70.Vn; 02.50.Ey; 05.40.-a (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1142/S0129183109013455

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