Safety

Emergency Evacuation is one most protective measure and viable alternative
during regional emergencies in response to both natural and man-made
disasters. Several evacuation traffic models have been developed and currently
available to support the planning and analysis of emergency evacuation.
However, to be effective, the decision-makers must understand how these
models can be used to facilitate the planning, analysis, and deployment of
emergency evacuation for populations at risk. This paper reviewed and analyzed
various traffic models, suggested how to improve the operational planning of
emergency evacuation, and recommended the necessary technological
enhancements for evacuation traffic models.

RSPA/US.DOT

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 29-May 2, 2002, Long Beach, California

The ROSATTE project aims at establishing an efficient and quality ensured data supply chain
from public authorities to commercial map providers with regards to safety related road
content. The ROSATTE project will consider national organisational issues and technical
interoperability issues and include a substantial number of road authorities and motorways
operators, both with and without national road databases. The proposed solution is based on
appropriate procedures and tools to be implemented by road authorities (data owners) at the
different levels (national, regional, local) with respects to their organisational and legal
framework and an adapted harmonised data exchange infrastructure. A viable solution needs
to generate benefits for the administrations them-selves in addition to enabling the data
provision to third parties.

Ulrich Haspel

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Growing traffic density is a major cause of a growing demand of timely and complete traffic
information. In addition, the increasing deployment of navigation systems and traveler
information services further boosts such demand.
Nevertheless, most of the traffic data is still provided by static sensors like magnetic loops on
motorways and arterial roads. While considering the possibility of detecting and predicting
traffic on non-equipped roads, the cost of installing and maintaining static traffic sensors makes a
global solution based on this technology impossible.
COM2REACT (http://www.com2react-project.org/) establishes a multi-level, scalable
cooperative system involving two-way Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Center (V2C)
communication, which will facilitate significant improvements in the flow of information
acquired by moving vehicles.

Motorola

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

The long tunnel along an urban expressway in central Tokyo (hereafter, referred to as
Yamate Tunnel) receives the world’s heaviest traffic. In order to ensure safe driving through
this tunnel, a wide variety of disaster prevention and traffic control facilities are installed.
For stable operation of these facilities we constructed latest telecommunication systems
using IT (Information technology) and power management systems. These systems are
described as follows.

Metropolitan Expressway Company Limited

CTI Engineering Company Limited

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Weather  problems  like  strong  rains,  fog,  wind,  ice  and  especially  snow,  are  important problems  for  traffic  flows  and  road  safety.  The  special  characteristics  of  weather  problems: strong area of influence, long-term effects and difficult prevision, makes necessary to develop coordinated actions between different national organizations and countries. This coordination involves  the  use  of  adequate  measures  to  solve  the  adverse  consequences  derived  from weather problems. In order to improve coordination, a set of actions are needed to help road managers to solve the problems efficiently. Coordination problems are more important when the incident location is close to a cross-border area.  The main purpose of this paper is to present a system that alerts traffic managers when there is a weather incident on the roads. Also, the paper shows the traffic management used associated with weather problems, the strategies for integrating both weather and traffic information, and the coordination between different national and international authorities.

Dirección General de Tráfico

Universidad de Valencia

Universitat Jaume I de Castelló

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York