Pull over strategy for the evacuation of an emergency vehicle in highways

TL;DR

This paper introduces a pull over strategy using a cellular automata model to improve emergency vehicle evacuation on highways, showing it speeds up EV movement and reduces traffic disruption.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel pull over strategy for emergency vehicle evacuation and demonstrates its effectiveness through traffic flow simulations.

Findings

Pull over strategy accelerates EV movement.

Strategy reduces overall traffic impact.

Numerical simulations validate effectiveness.

Abstract

By using a simplified two-lane cellular automata model for traffic flow, we simulate an evacuation of an emergency vehicle (EV) in highways. We introduce the pull over strategy to facilitate the evacuation of the EV in highways. We demonstrate numerically that this pulling over of cars promotes a faster moving of the EV in traffic flow and minimize the EV's impact on the overall traffic.