A learning real-time routing system for emergency vehicles

2008 IEEE International Conference on Automation, Quality and Testing, Robotics, AQTR 2008 - THETA 16th Edition - Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 390-395

  Vlad, R C ^a   Morel, C ^b   Morel, J Y ^c   Vlad, S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b École Supérieure D lectronique de l'Ouest ESEO

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LEARNING ROUTING; REAL-TIME DATA; REAL-TIME TRAFFIC; RESPONSE TIME; ROUTING SYSTEMS; TIME-OF-ARRIVAL; TRAFFIC LIGHTS; TRAFFIC VOLUMES;

AUTOMATION; EMERGENCY VEHICLES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; NETWORK ROUTING; NEURAL NETWORKS; ROBOTICS; VEHICLE ROUTING; VEHICLES;

ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 51949118296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AQTR.2008.4588950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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