Fast emergency pre-emption systems (FAST)

Author

Miyawaki, Makoto ; Yamashiro, Zuiki ; Yoshida, Toshihiro

Author_Institution

Traffic Manage. & Control Div. Traffic, Bur. Nat. Police Agency of Japan, Tokyo, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

993

Lastpage

997

Abstract

The National Police Agency (NPA) has been preparing the universal traffic management system throughout Japan. The fast emergency preemption systems (FAST) have been developed to resolve problems in cases of accidents and emergency cases. FAST is regarded to be one of nine development fields for Japan´s ITS total design. FAST supports emergency vehicle services by utilizing the two-way communicating function of infrared beacons that are a key infrastructure of the traffic control system. The system also supports safe and efficient operations of emergency vehicles by ways of signal priority control of emergency vehicles over other vehicles, indicating messages to inform general vehicles of the emergency vehicle is approaching, and route guidance for emergency vehicles

Keywords

accidents; emergency services; road traffic; traffic control; FAST; Japan; accidents; emergency response; emergency vehicle services; fast emergency preemption systems; road traffic control; universal traffic management system; Accidents; Communication system control; Communication system traffic control; Control systems; Disaster management; Optical fiber communication; Road vehicles; Traffic control; Turing machines; Vehicle safety;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/IEEJ/JSAI International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4975-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.1999.821199

Filename

821199