CAPITAL WIRELESS INTEGRATED NETWORK Communication and Emergency Response

摘要

The public's concern for safety in the Washington Metropolitan area has generated a need for improved coordination and information sharing between numerous public safety and transportation agencies and organizations in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. To meet this demand, public safety and transportation agencies are looking to use technology to share more timely and accurate information between agencies serving the Capital Beltway and surrounding Washington area road network. In this paper, we give an overview of the Capital Wireless Integrated Network Project (Cap-WIN) and the ongoing research that deals with the development and evaluation of a real time emergency response system that uses real time travel time information to assist emergency response vehicle dispatchers in assigning appropriate response vehicles and guiding those vehicles through less congested routes so as to minimize the response time and overall system efficiency. A simulation model is developed to test and evaluate this system.