Nasser Al-Ostath, Fatma Selityn, Zainab Al-Roudhan, Mohammed El-Abd
{"title":"Implementation of an emergency vehicle to traffic lights communication system","authors":"Nasser Al-Ostath, Fatma Selityn, Zainab Al-Roudhan, Mohammed El-Abd","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2015.7266494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2015.7266494","url":null,"abstract":"First light signals for controlling traffic were operated manually by the police. The next types were operated on a `fixed-time' basis by purely mechanical devices. Later developments included linking up a number of local fixed-time controllers with a master controller. The latest and most popular types are the traffic lights that are operated by the passing vehicles themselves by using detectors placed in the roadway. In Kuwait, road accidents have increased to a high level and the loss of human life due to accidents is to be avoided. Traffic blocking is a major fact that causes delay to emergency vehicles. To bar loss of human life due to accidents, we propose the ETL (Emergency Traffic Light) control system. The main goal behind this system is to provide a smooth flow for emergency vehicles such as ambulances to reach their destinations in time and thus minimizing the delay caused by traffic jams. The ETL control system will control the traffic lights in the path of the emergency vehicles, stopping conflicting traffic, and allowing the emergency vehicle right-of-way to help in reducing their response time.","PeriodicalId":115020,"journal":{"name":"2015 7th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124675234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A method of securing priority-use routes for emergency vehicles using inter-vehicle and vehicle-road communication","authors":"Yuma Moroi, K. Takami","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2015.7266466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2015.7266466","url":null,"abstract":"The number of emergency calls is growing year by year, owing to an increase in the number of accidents, fires and disasters. Consequently, the number of dispatches of emergency vehicles (police cars, ambulances and fire engines) is on the rise. This paper proposes a method of reducing the amount of time needed for emergency vehicles to travel to their destinations (travel time) by enabling these vehicles to run on the road with high priority. This is achieved by making emergency vehicles and road side units send messages that notify other vehicles of the routes that will be taken by the emergency vehicles via a VANET (Vehicular Ad hoc NETwork). We have developed a simulation system to evaluate the proposed method in terms of the average travel time. Two different radio propagation models were used. The evaluation results support the effectiveness of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":115020,"journal":{"name":"2015 7th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129284639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel cryptography based privacy preserving solution for urban mobility and traffic control","authors":"M. Badra, Elyes Ben Hamida","doi":"10.1109/NTMS.2015.7266468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NTMS.2015.7266468","url":null,"abstract":"Due to the proliferation of high-speed mobile networks and powerful smartphones featuring on-board GPS and multi-modal sensors devices, urban sensing has recently emerged as a novel computing paradigm for enabling future smart cities. However, users' privacy protection represents currently one of the biggest challenges which can significantly impact the engagement of people and the widespread adoption of such applications. In this paper, we propose a novel trajectory privacy-preserving architecture for urban sensing and traffic control applications. We show that our approach maintains the privacy of users while reducing the performance overhead of cryptographic computations. We further demonstrate that our solution is simple, scalable, and is robust against external attacks in maintaining data privacy and confidentiality of the users.","PeriodicalId":115020,"journal":{"name":"2015 7th International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129874106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}