A systematic review of route optimisation and pre-emption methods for emergency vehicles

S Humagain, R Sinha, E Lai, P Ranjitkar - Transport reviews, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Reducing the travel time of emergency vehicles (EVs) is an effective way to improve critical
services such as ambulance, fire, and police. Route optimisation and pre-emption are …

Analytics and machine learning in vehicle routing research

R Bai, X Chen, ZL Chen, T Cui, S Gong… - … Journal of Production …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most intensively studied combinatorial
optimisation problems for which numerous models and algorithms have been proposed. To …

EMVLight: A multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for an emergency vehicle decentralized routing and traffic signal control system

H Su, YD Zhong, JYJ Chow, B Dey, L Jin - Transportation Research Part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play a crucial role in responding to time-critical calls such as
medical emergencies and fire outbreaks in urban areas. Existing methods for EMV dispatch …

Guiding cities to pursue a smart mobility paradigm: An example from vehicle routing guidance and its traffic and operational effects

S Melo, J Macedo, P Baptista - Research in transportation economics, 2017 - Elsevier
The concept of'smart cities' is rooted on the approach taken by cities to reconcile the three
often conflicting objectives of economic efficiency, environmental quality and social equity …

EMVLight: A decentralized reinforcement learning framework for efficient passage of emergency vehicles

H Su, YD Zhong, B Dey, A Chakraborty - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play a crucial role in responding to time-critical events such as
medical emergencies and fire outbreaks in an urban area. The less time EMVs spend …

Adaptive multi-phase approach for solving the realistic vehicle routing problems in logistics with innovative comparison method for evaluation based on real GPS data

E Žunić, S Delalić, D Đonko - Transportation Letters, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Transportation management, as a part of the supply chain management, is a complex
process that consists of planning and delivering goods to customers. The paper presents a …

Every Second Counts: A Comprehensive Review of Route Optimization and Priority Control for Urban Emergency Vehicles

Z Hao, Y Wang, X Yang - Sustainability, 2024 - mdpi.com
Emergency vehicles (EMVs) play an important role in saving human lives and mitigating
property losses in urban traffic systems. Due to traffic congestion and improper priority …

Online flash delivery from multiple depots

M Kronmüller, A Fielbaum, J Alonso-Mora - Transportation Letters, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We study routing for on-demand last-mile logistics with two crucial novel features: i) Multiple
depots, optimizing where to pick-up every order, ii) Allowing vehicles to perform depot …

Dynamic routing optimization with electric vehicles under stochastic battery depletion

V Ünal, M Soysal, M Çimen, Ç Koç - Transportation Letters, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses a dynamic traveling salesman problem with electric vehicles under
stochastic battery depletion. In the problem, traffic density and battery consumption rate are …

Data collection system of iot based on the coordination of drones and unmanned surface vehicle

Z Wang, L Tian, L Lin, J Xie, W Wu… - Journal of advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the continuous renewal and rise of various flight equipment, this article designs a
method of water data collection, which is realized through the coordination of an unmanned …