In post-disaster scenarios, such as after floods, earthquakes, and in war zones, the cellular com... more In post-disaster scenarios, such as after floods, earthquakes, and in war zones, the cellular communication infrastructure may be destroyed or seriously disrupted. In such emergency scenarios, it becomes very important for first aid responders to communicate with other rescue teams in order to provide feedback to both the central office and the disaster survivors. To address this issue, rapidly deployable systems are required to re-establish connectivity and assist users and first responders in the region of incident. In this work, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a rapidly deployable system for first response applications in post-disaster situations, named RDSP. The proposed system helps early rescue responders and victims by sharing their location information to remotely located servers by utilizing a novel routing scheme. This novel routing scheme consists of the Dynamic ID Assignment (DIA) algorithm and the Minimum Maximum Neighbor (MMN) algorithm. The D...
In post-disaster scenarios, such as after floods, earthquakes, and in war zones, the cellular com... more In post-disaster scenarios, such as after floods, earthquakes, and in war zones, the cellular communication infrastructure may be destroyed or seriously disrupted. In such emergency scenarios, it becomes very important for first aid responders to communicate with other rescue teams in order to provide feedback to both the central office and the disaster survivors. To address this issue, rapidly deployable systems are required to re-establish connectivity and assist users and first responders in the region of incident. In this work, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a rapidly deployable system for first response applications in post-disaster situations, named RDSP. The proposed system helps early rescue responders and victims by sharing their location information to remotely located servers by utilizing a novel routing scheme. This novel routing scheme consists of the Dynamic ID Assignment (DIA) algorithm and the Minimum Maximum Neighbor (MMN) algorithm. The D...
A brief study of different techniques to roughly estimate the strength and durability of structur... more A brief study of different techniques to roughly estimate the strength and durability of structures build primarily of concrete.
The highway capacity manual (HCM) is the publication used most often to estimate cap... more The highway capacity manual (HCM) is the publication used most often to estimate capacity. Field measurements in previous research have shown that the capacities at several freeway bottlenecks are noticeably lower than the values recommended in the HCM (highway capacity manual), by an order of a few hundred vehicles per lane. In addition, several articles have shown that maximum freeway throughout may differ between under saturated and oversaturated conditions. This paper assembles capacity flows before and after the initiation of oversaturation, discusses recommended definitions of capacity, and provides capacity values and capacity prediction models for various types of freeway segments.
In post-disaster scenarios, such as after floods, earthquakes, and in war zones, the cellular com... more In post-disaster scenarios, such as after floods, earthquakes, and in war zones, the cellular communication infrastructure may be destroyed or seriously disrupted. In such emergency scenarios, it becomes very important for first aid responders to communicate with other rescue teams in order to provide feedback to both the central office and the disaster survivors. To address this issue, rapidly deployable systems are required to re-establish connectivity and assist users and first responders in the region of incident. In this work, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a rapidly deployable system for first response applications in post-disaster situations, named RDSP. The proposed system helps early rescue responders and victims by sharing their location information to remotely located servers by utilizing a novel routing scheme. This novel routing scheme consists of the Dynamic ID Assignment (DIA) algorithm and the Minimum Maximum Neighbor (MMN) algorithm. The D...
In post-disaster scenarios, such as after floods, earthquakes, and in war zones, the cellular com... more In post-disaster scenarios, such as after floods, earthquakes, and in war zones, the cellular communication infrastructure may be destroyed or seriously disrupted. In such emergency scenarios, it becomes very important for first aid responders to communicate with other rescue teams in order to provide feedback to both the central office and the disaster survivors. To address this issue, rapidly deployable systems are required to re-establish connectivity and assist users and first responders in the region of incident. In this work, we describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of a rapidly deployable system for first response applications in post-disaster situations, named RDSP. The proposed system helps early rescue responders and victims by sharing their location information to remotely located servers by utilizing a novel routing scheme. This novel routing scheme consists of the Dynamic ID Assignment (DIA) algorithm and the Minimum Maximum Neighbor (MMN) algorithm. The D...
A brief study of different techniques to roughly estimate the strength and durability of structur... more A brief study of different techniques to roughly estimate the strength and durability of structures build primarily of concrete.
The highway capacity manual (HCM) is the publication used most often to estimate cap... more The highway capacity manual (HCM) is the publication used most often to estimate capacity. Field measurements in previous research have shown that the capacities at several freeway bottlenecks are noticeably lower than the values recommended in the HCM (highway capacity manual), by an order of a few hundred vehicles per lane. In addition, several articles have shown that maximum freeway throughout may differ between under saturated and oversaturated conditions. This paper assembles capacity flows before and after the initiation of oversaturation, discusses recommended definitions of capacity, and provides capacity values and capacity prediction models for various types of freeway segments.
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Field measurements in previous research have shown that the capacities at several freeway
bottlenecks are noticeably lower than the values recommended in the HCM (highway capacity
manual), by an order of a few hundred vehicles per lane. In addition, several articles have shown
that maximum freeway throughout may differ between under saturated and oversaturated
conditions. This paper assembles capacity flows before and after the initiation of oversaturation,
discusses recommended definitions of capacity, and provides capacity values and capacity
prediction models for various types of freeway segments.
Field measurements in previous research have shown that the capacities at several freeway
bottlenecks are noticeably lower than the values recommended in the HCM (highway capacity
manual), by an order of a few hundred vehicles per lane. In addition, several articles have shown
that maximum freeway throughout may differ between under saturated and oversaturated
conditions. This paper assembles capacity flows before and after the initiation of oversaturation,
discusses recommended definitions of capacity, and provides capacity values and capacity
prediction models for various types of freeway segments.