Localisation and Evacuation of Travellers in Emergency Situations:The SAVE ME Project
Dan Brennan, GD Evans, Phil T. Blythe, Basil J. Sherlock · 19th ITS World CongressERTICO - ITS EuropeEuropean CommissionITS AmericaITS Asia-Pacific · 2012
Public Transport plays a critical role in transportation systems and is essential to the national economy and the social quality of life of citizens. However natural disasters (primarily earthquakes and tsunamis leading to devastating floods) are becoming all the more frequent across the World. These disasters can have serious impacts on transport infrastructures and operations, not just in the short-term time frame of the disaster itself, but longer term through the recovery process and subsequent rebuilding of the infrastructure. In this work the authors demonstrate a proprietary localisation system based on IEEE 802.15.4 wireless technology capable of localising and tracking traveller movements in emergency situations. The authors also discuss the SAVE ME project as a whole as a method of evacuating travellers in transportation hubs utilising a variety of ITC technologies.